On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:17:55AM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote: > On 06/03/2016 09:14 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > > > > On Friday 03 June 2016 06:59 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> On 06/03/2016 03:06 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > >>> On 01/06/16 13:34, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > >>>> The INA3221 is a three-channel, high-side current and bus voltage > >>>> monitor > >>>> with an I2C interface from Texas Instruments. The INA3221 monitors both > >>>> shunt voltage drops and bus supply voltages in addition to having > >>>> programmable conversion times and averaging modes for these signals. > >>>> The INA3221 offers both critical and warning alerts to detect multiple > >>>> programmable out-of-range conditions for each channel. > >>>> > >>>> Add support for INA3221 SW driver via IIO ADC interface. The device is > >>>> register as iio-device and provides interface for voltage/current > >>>> and power > >>>> monitor. Also provide interface for setting oneshot/continuous mode and > >>>> critical/warning threshold for the shunt voltage drop. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Hi Laxman, > >>> > >>> As ever with any driver lying on the border of IIO and hwmon, please > >>> include > >>> a short justification of why you need an IIO driver and also cc the > >>> hwmon list + maintainers. (cc'd on this reply). > >>> > >>> I simply won't take a driver where the hwmon maintainers aren't happy. > >>> As it stands I'm not seeing obvious reasons in the code for why this > >>> should be an IIO device. > >>> > >> > >> Me not either. > >> > >> I have a hwmon driver for the same chip pending from Andrew Davis (TI) > >> which I am just about to accept. We had directed Andrew back in April > >> to write a hwmon driver for the chip, which he did. > >> > > > > Thanks Guenter, I found the series > > > > [PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for INA3221 Triple Current/Voltage Monitors > > Looks fine to me. I can use the hwmon. > > > > If you search even further back you can see I originally went with an > IIO driver as well, comparing the IIO and hwmon version for the simple > use cases I needed the hwmod version turned out much simpler, so it was > probably the right framework for now. > > > > > However, some of the stuff from my patch are not there which I will add > > later once original patch applied: > > - Dynamic mode changes for continuous and one-shot from sysfs. > > - In one shot, when try to read voltage data, do conversion and then read. > > > > My attempt is rather minimal, to be honest I like your stab at this > driver better in some ways, especially relating to DT putting each > channel in its own node with labels, I think this is a bit more clean > and will be more extendable if/when new multi-channel monitor chips are > made. > > > Not sure whether exporting the following will help or not. Can you > > please confirm? > > - Oversampling time i.e. average sample > > - conversion time for bus voltage and shunt voltage if default is not > > suited for system. > > > > > > These can always be added as needed, but the DT changes are not as easy. > I would like it if this got in this cycle but if you think something > will be needed to help your improvements, that can not be added > incrementally, it would probably be best to get them into the initial DT > binding doc now. > Andrew, with this, the hwmon driver is pretty much on hold. What do you want me to do ? Should I wait for DT updates ? Guenter -- 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
