Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:30:42 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] drivers/misc: rf/ad9361: AD9361 device driver for Radio phy |
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 02:57:40PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 06/17/2013 10:09 AM, akhil.goyal@freescale.com wrote: > > From: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@freescale.com> > > > > AD9361 is a radio phy(RFIC) for radio networks. This phy > > can support LTE-FDD/LTE-TDD and WCDMA networks. The RFIC > > can convert the analog radio signals from air to digital > > IQ samples. > > > > AD9361 is controlled via an SPI bus and all the register > > read/ write can be performed via SPI transactions. > > > > Driver provides various operations for configuring and > > controlling the AD PHY. These can be controlled from the > > user space via the rfdev framework. > > > > Driver also binds itself to one of AIC lane using RF framework. > > The combination of AIC lane and PHY connected to it works > > as one RF device. > > > > Signed-off-by: Shaveta Leekha <shaveta@freescale.com> > > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Chauhan <pankaj.chauhan@freescale.com> > > Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Upadhaya <bhaskar.upadhaya@freescale.com> > > Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@freescale.com> > > Hi, > > This is interesting. We at Analog Devices are currently also working on a > driver for this part. We are using the Linux Industrial IO (IIO) framework > though, since the AD9361 is more or less a multifunction device implementing > different functions already covered by the IIO framework, like ADCs, DACs, > clock chips and so on.
That's the "proper" api for this, not a bunch of chip-custom ioctls that aren't documented anywhere.
thanks,
greg k-h
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