Re: [PATCH v4] iio: add LM3533 ambient-light-sensor driver

From: Michael Hennerich
Date: Tue May 22 2012 - 04:11:43 EST


On 05/22/2012 09:49 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On 5/22/2012 8:45 AM, Michael Hennerich wrote:
On 05/21/2012 06:37 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
Michael cc'd for comments on core support of some stuff that is also
in frequency drivers down the end of the email.

On 05/21/2012 10:50 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On 05/18/2012 02:07 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
So to summarise, we get the following new sysfs-entries for the ALS
(where the first set replace targetX_Y):

out_currentX_currentY_raw r/w, (0..255), X in 0..2, Y in 0..4
out_currentX_raw ro (0..255), X in 0..2

Is there any support in core for the first set or should I simply
rename my target attributes?
No support in the core yet for this sort of thing..
Michael, any thoughts on this? In a sense it's very similar to
out_altvoltageX_frequencyY_raw etc...

Hi,

Exactly it's similar to what we have on the DDS parts.
The DDS parts would also benefit from a second index.

Can someone think of an use case where we have 'differential' or 'modified'
together with this pattern?

If not we could use channel2 and introduce an new flag, but I fear
that we end up using channel2 for too many things.
So we should better introduce an new variable?

New variable. Tedious but channel2 is getting rather too overloaded.



Blah channel2 is not an option at all.
We need to generate an index on the postfix.
And we can't pass this information via info_mask.
So ext_info could be your friend?

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