On 05/13/2012 11:06 AM, Roland Stigge wrote: > Hi, > > On 13/05/12 09:25, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: >>> I'm generally fine with the proposed changes and can ack it. However, we >>> should provide a replacement for the old "1&2" attribute. It supports a >>> certain hardware feature of this chip. No need to sacrifice it. >> >> I don't think it makes sense to keep it in it's current form. First of all this >> isn't really covered by the IIO spec to have one attribute which changes two >> (or more) output at once and secondly it is artificially limited to setting the >> same value on both outputs, while the chip doesn't have this limitations and >> you can set different values on both outputs at once. > > Please consider this as a special feature of the chip (setting the > outputs timely at once), not a "limitation", since you can also set them > individually. > What I meant was that it is not a limitation of the chip, but the driver only allows limited use of that feature. You can only set the same value on both outputs simultaneously, which I think has not so many practical use-cases. You'd rather want to set two different values on output 1 and 2. - Lars -- 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
