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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iio: inkern: Add of_xlate function to struct iio_dev
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On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 13:14 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 18/10/14 12:50, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > On 10/18/2014 01:42 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > On 02/10/14 13:32, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> > > > When #iio-cells is greater than '0', the driver could provide
> > > > a custom of_xlate function that reads the *args* and returns
> > > > the appropriate index in registered IIO channels array.
> > > > >
> > > > Add simple translation function, suitable for the most 1:1
> > > > mapped channels in IIO chips, and use it when driver did not
> > > > provide custom implementation.
> > > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@mm-sol.com>
> > > Any more comments on this? Been sat a while and the
> > > discussions seems
> > > to have died out.
> > > >
> > > As Ivan has pointed out, very similar approaches are used
> > > elsewhere (gpio for example).
> >
> > Looks good to me:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
> >
> > When we initially added the DT support to IIO I was hoping that
> > we can get away
> > with just using the simple and generic xlate function for all
> > devices. But it
> > looks as if some more complex devices need to overwrite it. We
> > should be careful
> > about adding new driver specific xlate implementations and make
> > sure that it is
> > actually needed.
> >
> > One thing we might want to consider though is instead of adding
> > the xlate
> > callback to the iio_dev struct add it to the iio_info struct
> > since it should be
> > the same for different device instances of the same driver. And
> > this is also
> > where all the other callbacks are.
> Good point - would definitely prefer that.

Thank you. Will rework it as suggested.

Regards,
Ivan

>
> J
> >
> > - Lars
>


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