On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:12:45 +0200 Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2018-04-15 19:31, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:28:02 +0200 > > Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> If an ADC channel measures the midpoint of a voltage divider, the > >> interesting voltage is often the voltage over the full resistance. > >> E.g. if the full voltage is too big for the ADC to handle. > >> Likewise, if an ADC channel measures the voltage across a shunt > >> resistor, the interesting value is often the current through the > >> resistor. > >> > >> This driver solves both problems by allowing to linearly scale a channel > >> and by allowing changes to the type of the channel. Or both. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> > > So I 'think' the only outstanding question is Andrew's one about the driver > > name. We aren't in a hurry at this point in the kernel cycle, so lets > > wait until that discussion has ended. Assuming that we do possibly end > > up with a change, then please roll all the patches up into a single series > > to avoid me getting confusion. > > Yeah, sure, sorry for the split series, but the lt6106 that's present in > one of our newer designs didn't occur to me until just seconds after > firing the first half of the series. Which is kind of typical... > > Anyway, about the driver naming. The suggestion I like best so far is > linear-scaler from Linus W, but thinking about it some more I think I > like iio-rescale even better. > > Any objections to iio-rescale? Works for me. But then I rarely care 'that much' about naming and am responsible for plenty of previous confusing choices ;) Jonathan > > Cheers, > Peter > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
