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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] iio: Documentation: Add ina2xx shunt_resistor attribute documentation
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On Montag, 17. Juli 2017 22:53:57 CEST Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 01:34:10 +0200
>
> Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> > The ina2xx driver appeared in the Linux kernel version 4.5, but provided
> > no documentation. Contrary to other uses of resistance in IIO, ina2xx uses
> > microohms instead of ohms in the sysfs attribute.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
>
> This has me confused. The documentation is already
> there and lists it as being in ohms.

Which obviously, from reading the source code, is wrong - it uses microohms.

Also, the current Description contains IMHO irrelevant stuff:
"The value of the shunt resistor may be known only at runtime fom an
eeprom content read by a client application."

> Ah, subtle filename difference. Docs in are
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-ina2xx-adc

Well spotted ...

> This attribute effectively exists for other parts
> as well now.

My grep foo failed me here, the only parts I could find are the MAX9611 (which
specifies and uses ohms) and the INA2xx.

adc/qcom-spmi-iadc.c allows to read the RSENSE value from device tree
(specified in microohms), but does not expose it via sysfs.

Can you point me to other devices?

Slightly off-topic: Some attributes in iio are read from device-tree (e.g.
shunt resistor values), should the iio documentation point to the dt bindings?
Currently, only mount_matrix in sysfs-bus-iio vaguely mentions device-tree.

Kind regards,

Stefan

> > ---
> >
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-adc-ina2xx-adc | 7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-adc-ina2xx-adc
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-adc-ina2xx-adc
> > b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-adc-ina2xx-adc new file mode
> > 100644
> > index 000000000000..9525098f6822
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-adc-ina2xx-adc
> > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> > +What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_shunt_resistor
> > +Date: December 2015
> > +KernelVersion: 4.5
> > +Contact: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> > +Description: The value of the shunt resistor connected to the V_IN+
and
> > V_IN- + inputs, used to compute the current flowing through the shunt
> > and + the corresponding power. In microohms.

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