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
next prev parent 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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