Re: [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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> >  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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