Re: [PATCH 3/4] hwmon: Add a simple driver to read the MXS SoC temperature

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>]

Hi,

On 27/06/2013 16:27, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:17:32AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 07:39:27AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:51:12AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>>>> The low resolution ADC of the mxs is able to read an internal temperature
>>>> sensor, expose that using hwmon.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to use iio-hwmon and improve it if necessary ?
>> Actually, I wonder if we should not just put the hwmon driver
>> capabilities directly into the mxs-lradc driver, just like it's already
>> been done in this driver for the touchscreen support.
>>
>> The probing of this hwmon driver doesn't really belong to the DT, it's
>> not really realistic to probe it from the machine definition, and it
>> really is the IP that is wired that way.
>>
> Merging iio-hwmon functionality into an adc driver seems just as bad
> (or even worse) as copying it into a new driver.
>
> If the lradc driver knows that the ADC channels are temperature sensors, it
> should register them with the iio subsystem as IIO_TEMP type. Then you should
> be able to use iio_hwmon as is.

They are already registered as IIO_TEMP but only implement read_raw. Also,

iio_hwmon_read_val() is using iio_read_channel_processed() and that will
basically only read one of the 2 channels. As I documented, you actually
need to read both channel 8 and channel 9 and then compute the value in
Kelvins. I'm not sure how you want me to do that in the current framework.

Regards,

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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
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