Re: IIO driver for si114x

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Crestez Dan Leonard
<leonard.crestez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 03:06 PM, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to add support for a si1145 light sensor. Some brief googling
>>> finds a
>>> bunch of old (2012) patches for an si114x driver in drivers/iio/light.
>>> Here's
>>> the link to the old thread:
>>>
>>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.iio/5478
>>
>>
>> I have updated sources, not yet posted
>> Matt Ranostay also indicated that he'd be willing to work on the device
>
> I found some reasonably recent sources in the chromeos kernel:
>
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel-next/+/chromeos-4.4/drivers/iio/light/si114x.c
>
> This driver seems to be only for si1141/42/43 models and will explicitly
> fail on probe with the part_id values reported by si1145. Some hacking made
> the driver probe and report some sort of values.
>
> I'm not sure how well that driver is tested, it failed for me at register
> time because SI114X_CURRENT_CHANNEL has the default scan_index 0 and this is
> detected as a duplicate despite the fact that scan_type is not otherwise
> filled. This check has been in the IIO core since 3.18.

Pretty sure the tests where done without this patch:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-iio/msg15851.html
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