Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for as1531, Austria-Microsystem Analogto Digital Converter.

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue May 17 2011 - 05:32:26 EST


On 05/17/11 10:25, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 05/17/11 08:06, Fabien Marteau wrote:
>> Hi Guenter,
>>
>> Thanks for the review.
>>
>> On 16/05/2011 17:39, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:39:14AM -0400, fabien.marteau@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> From: Fabien Marteau <fabien.marteau@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Some description, such as "Dhis driver adds support for xxx" would be nice.
>>>
>>> Also, I wonder if this driver belongs into hwmon in the first place. It is
>>> a generic ADC chip with high conversion rate. iio would probably be more
>>> appropriate and also much better in supporting high speed readings.
>> I provided this driver "as is" because it's a driver that work well on
>> our platform. I thought that iio was not stable enough driver framework
>> to be used.
>> I can rewrite it under iio framework but I have no time for this moment
>> to do that. You think it's better to wait for an iio driver or to
>> continue commiting this ?
> I'd say that if you primary use is hwmon, put it there for now and we can think
> about moving it at a later date depending on how people are actually using it.
> Guenter, would that be ok for you?
Having actually taken a look at the code, it's straight forward, so if you
are using it as a general purpose adc then I'm happy to port to IIO
sometimes soonish... Will need some testing at somepoint though.

Jonathan
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