Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: BMC150 accel support

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On July 8, 2014 2:23:55 PM GMT+01:00, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 05:13:56PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 07/07/14 15:36, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> >With regulators the delays are handled transparently in the
>framework -
>> >by the time the functions return the operation should have
>commpleted.
>> >If there is a need to have a non-blocking interface we'll have to
>add
>> >this.  The delays can be queried with _time() functions.
>
>> We are looking at a somewhat tangential question here...
>
>I don't think so...
>
>> Hence rather than picking a given power state (deep sleep or similar)
>> we want the control to be on capture latency.  Hence userspace
>> can specify the 'worst case' latency it will accept and the
>> device will hence enter the lowest power state, between samples,
>> that it can without failing to meet the requirement.
>> 
>> What I was wondering is whether there is anything similar
>> elsewhere that you know of? For example, could we query a
>> regulator driver to ask it how long it will take to start up
>> a given output?
>
>...hence my comment that "The delays can be queried with _time()
>functions - you don't need to implement the delays but you can find out
>what they will be.
Ah sounds like I miss interpreted your response! 
Will look into the _time stuff.

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