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SubjectRe: [PATCH] misc: add driver for Renesas R-Car Gyro-ADC/speed-pulse interfaces
Hello.

On 07/14/2013 12:12 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

>>>>> And are you sure you want to control this through sysfs? There's no
>>>>> other better user/kernel apis for it?

>>>> I found none, besides ioctl(), as the device driven is rather
>>>> unique. But I thought that sysfs is "ioctl() today", so I went with it...

>>> It does sound like it would fit better into IIO than just a misc driver,
>>> even if it's the only hardware of its kind.

>> I got somewhat familiarized myself with drivers/iio/ infrastructure and I
>> have found a place only the for ADC device in which the customer currently
>> has no interest.
>> The other trouble is that I'll have to backport this driver to 3.4 which
>> doesn't contain the IIO infrastructure at all. :-(

> It has, it's just still in staging in 3.4. But the API (except for minor
> modifications) and more importantly the ABI are the same.

Thank you for the useful information. I wouldn't probably have
figured it out to search there.

> There is a angular velocity channel type in IIO. maybe that could be used to
> report the Speed-Pulse-ADC values.

You probably misunderstood from my terse description. Multichannel
ADC interface is separate from the speed-pulse interface which has on
its single input digital PWM signal of varying frequency. Speed pulse
i/f measures pulse count and period. I've found no adequate channel type
in IIO infrastructure so far. I'll mail the IIO maintainers with a
request for help probably...

> - Lars

WBR, Sergei



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