Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] iio: pressure: driver for Honeywell HSC/SSC series pressure sensors

[Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@subdimension.ro>]

Hello!

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 06:33:34PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 12:27:17 +0200
> Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@subdimension.ro> wrote:
> 
> > Adds driver for digital Honeywell TruStability HSC and SSC series
> > pressure and temperature sensors. 
>
> Hi Petre
> 
> A quick end of day review.
> 
> Jonathan

welcome back.
amazing how you were able to review so many code sets in one day.
thank you for your input.

> > +#define     HSC_PRESSURE_TRIPLET_LEN  6
> 
> Can you make this length based on something like a structure length, or number
> of registers?  That would make it self documenting which is always nice to have.

I added a comment in V4, this length is simply based on the string used by
honeywell to differentiate these chips based on their pressura range, 
measurement unit and sensor type. see the first column in Table 8, 9, 10 in [1]

[1] https://prod-edam.honeywell.com/content/dam/honeywell-edam/sps/siot/en-us/products/sensors/pressure-sensors/board-mount-pressure-sensors/trustability-hsc-series/documents/sps-siot-trustability-hsc-series-high-accuracy-board-mount-pressure-sensors-50099148-a-en-ciid-151133.pdf

> > +struct hsc_data {
> > +	void *client;
> > +	const struct hsc_chip_data *chip;
> > +	struct mutex lock;
> > +	int (*xfer)(struct hsc_data *data);
> > +	bool is_valid;
> > +	u8 buffer[HSC_REG_MEASUREMENT_RD_SIZE];
> 
> This is used for SPI transfers so should be DMA safe. It's not currently.
> Look at how IIO_DMA_MINALIGN is used in other drivers to ensure there is
> no unsafe sharing of cachelines.
> 
> On some architectures this is fixed by the stuff that bounces all small transfers
> but I don't think that is universal yet.  If you want more info find the talk
> by Wolfram Sang from a few years ago an ELCE on I2C DMA safe buffers.

that was a nice rabbit hole, thanks for the pointer.

now, based on [2] I will skip explicit i2c dma-related code since my requests
are 4 bytes long. according to the document, any i2c xfer below 8bytes is not
worth the overhead.

[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/i2c/dma-considerations.html

> > +static int hsc_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
> > +{
> > +	struct iio_dev *indio_dev;
> > +	struct hsc_data *hsc;
> > +	struct device *dev = &spi->dev;
> > +
> > +	indio_dev = devm_iio_device_alloc(dev, sizeof(*hsc));
> > +	if (!indio_dev)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	hsc = iio_priv(indio_dev);
> > +	hsc->xfer = hsc_spi_xfer;
> 
> Also, pass the callback and spi->dev into hsc probe. Easy to use
> a container_of() to get back to the struct spi_device *spi

I'd rather simply pass along the client struct.

> > +	hsc->client = spi;
> > +
> > +	return hsc_probe(indio_dev, &spi->dev, spi_get_device_id(spi)->name,
> > +			 spi_get_device_id(spi)->driver_data);
> Don't use anything form spi_get_device_id()
> 
> Name is a fixed string currently so pass that directly.
> For driver data, there isn't any yet but if there were use
> spi_get_device_match_data() and make sure to provide the data in all the
> id tables.  That function will search the firmware ones first then call
> back to the spi specific varient.

along the way driver_data became redundant, so it was removed from the function
prototype.

best regards,
peter