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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>
Cc: michael.hennerich@analog.com, stefan.popa@analog.com,
	alexandru.Ardelean@analog.com, dragos.bogdan@analog.com,
	jic23@kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-usp@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Help on testing ad5933 driver
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:05:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322100502.GM2202@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321193913.q46gq3h7h63ltpgp@smtp.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 04:39:13PM -0300, Marcelo Schmitt wrote:
> Hello, would anyone mind helping me test ad5933 driver on actual
> hardware?  I went through this
> (https://oslongjourney.github.io/linux-kernel/experiment-one-iio-dummy/)
> tutorial so I was able to load iio_simple_dummy driver, create and
> inspect some dummy devices.  Now, as Jonathan has asked me, I would like
> to test ad5933 driver on an EVAL-AD5933 board which was donated to FLUSP
> (https://flusp.ime.usp.br/).
> 
> So far I've been hesitating to plug this device on my Debian distro
> since this
> (https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/user-guides/UG-364.pdf)
> user guide for Windows says not to connect it before driver
> installation. Is there something that could harm the board if plugged
> on a computer without a proper driver?

The kernel shouldn't be bricking hardware...  Hardware used to be easier
to brick in olden times...

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-21 19:39 Help on testing ad5933 driver Marcelo Schmitt
2019-03-22 10:05 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-03-22 20:34 ` Alexandru Ardelean
2019-03-24 16:31   ` Jonathan Cameron

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