Messages in this thread | | | From | "R, Durgadoss" <> | Subject | RE: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Generic ADC support for hwmon | Date | Tue, 15 May 2012 12:42:57 +0000 |
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Hi Guenter,
Thanks for a quick reply.
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:26:48AM -0400, Jenny TC wrote: > > Currently drivers are using custom APIs to communicate with ADC driver. > > So it make sense to have generic APIs to commnicate with ADC drivers. > > This patch introduces generic APIs to communicate with ADC drivers. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jenny TC <jenny.tc@intel.com> > > Hi Jenny, > > Do you have a practical use case ?
We have some platform specific component drivers, thermal drivers, battery drivers using this General purpose ADC in the platform. That's why we thought of doing something like this.
> > Also, shouldn't those generic ADCs rather be supported through the IO > subsystem ? > After all, hwmon is all about hardware monitoring, not to provide generic ADC > access.
In this case, can we try this in iio or mfd subsystem ? Kindly advise.
Thanks, Durga
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