Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] iio: light: Add support for Capella cm36686 and cm36672p sensors

[Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 20:20:07 +0200
Erikas Bitovtas <xerikasxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/9/26 5:49 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 05:48:22PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
> >> On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 04:23:40PM +0200, Erikas Bitovtas wrote:  
> >>> This patch series adds support for Capella cm36686 and cm36672p ambient
> >>> light and proximity sensors.
> >>>
> >>> Capella cm36686 is a combined ambient light and proximity sensor with
> >>> adjustable integration time, interrupt and hysteresis support. It has
> >>> the slave address of 0x60. cm36672p is fully compatible with cm36686,
> >>> except that it is a proximity-only sensor.  
> >>
> >> So, can we share the code (assuming there is a driver and it already
> >> uses or may be converted to regmap APIs)?  
> > 
> > Ah, it's being added with the same driver... So, have you checked if there is
> > any similar HW with the available driver in upstream?
> >   
> 
> I checked only for other Capella sensors, I forgot that Vishay acquired Capella
> Microsystems. Now that I checked, vcnl4040 uses the same registers and regfields
> as cm36686 and can be used instead...
> I am sorry for wasting your time. Should I add a fallback to vcnl4040's
> devicetree schema and add cm36672p support by excluding the light channels instead?
> 

Sounds good to me.

Jonathan

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