On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 11:59:38AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 28/01/14 13:52, Harald Geyer wrote: > >The LRADC can drive two of its ADC channels with a defined current > >between 0 and 300uA to allow reading thermistors without external > >current source. I'm not sure what the right IIO ABI in this case > I'd be tempted to do this via the regulator framework instead of IIO. > At somepoint we could have a bridge to allow an iio interface on a regulator > if anyone wants it (you never know) I'm very worried about the idea of an ABI - if IIO wants to offer something that is implemented using the regulator API that's fine but doing it directly from the regulator API sounds worrying. > I guess the main advantage in doing it in IIO would be to keep stuff in > one logical group. Still they might just as easily be using an external > regulator to drive thermistors so using the regulator framework would be > more consistent... The current that's driven seems more a property of the thermistor than of the regulator if it is a generic regulator.
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