Re: [Ping for Dmitry] Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] iio: adc: add ADC driver for the TI TSC2046 controller

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Hi Oleksij, Jonathan,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:31:05AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> probably this mail passed under your radar. Can you please add your
> statement here.

Sorry, my bad, I saw "iio" and thought there is nothing for me to
comment on ;)

> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:58:26AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:31:31 +0200
> > Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Basically the TI TSC2046 touchscreen controller is 8 channel ADC optimized for
> > > the touchscreen use case. By implementing it as an IIO ADC device, we can
> > > make use of resistive-adc-touch and iio-hwmon drivers.
> > > 
> > > Polled readings are currently not implemented to keep this patch small, so
> > > iio-hwmon will not work out of the box for now.
> > > 
> > > So far, this driver was tested with a custom version of resistive-adc-touch driver,
> > > since it needs to be extended to make use of Z1 and Z2 channels. The X/Y
> > > are working without additional changes.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Hi Oleksij,
> > 
> > Couple of things in here I missed before, but big question is still whether
> > Dmitry is happy with what you mention in the cover letter:
> > 
> > "This driver can replace drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c and has
> > following advantages over it:
> > - less code to maintain
> > - shared code paths (resistive-adc-touch, iio-hwmon, etc)
> > - can be used as plain IIO ADC to investigate signaling issues or test
> >   real capacity of the plates and attached low-pass filters
> >   (or use the touchscreen as a microphone if you like ;) )"

I am all for code unification and reuse, so please go ahead. If there
are regressions we can re-evaluate and see if they can be addressed in
this driver or if we need to resurrect ads7846.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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