The first patch in this series is just a simple helper to lock/unlock
the device. Having these helpers make the code slightly neater (IMHO).
The following patches introduces changes in the sampling frequency
calculation when sync scale/pps modes are used. First, it's important
to understand the purpose of this mode and how it should be used. Let's
say our part has an internal rate of 4250 (e.g adis1649x family) and the
user wants an output rate of 200SPS. Obviously, we can't use this
sampling rate and divide back down to get 200 SPS with decimation on.
Hence, we can use this mode to give an input clock of 1HZ, scale it to
something like 4200 or 4000 SPS and then use the decimation filter to get
the exact desired 200SPS. There are also some limits that should be
taken into account when scaling:
* For the devices in the adis16475 driver:
- Input sync frequency range is 1 to 128 Hz
- Native sample rate: 2 kSPS. Optimal range: 1900-2100 sps
* For the adis1649x family (adis16480 driver):
- Input sync frequency range is 1 to 128 Hz
- Native sample rate: 4.25 kSPS. Optimal range: 4000-4250 sps
I'm not 100% convinced on how to handle the optimal minimum. For now,
I'm just throwing a warning saying we might get into trouble if we get a
value lower than that. I was also tempted to just return -EINVAL or
clamp the value. However, I know that there are ADI customers that
(for some reason) are using a sampling rate lower than the minimum
advised.
That said, the patch for the adis16480 driver is a fix as this mode was
being wrongly handled. There should not be a "separation" between using
the sync_scale and the dec_rate registers. The way things were being done,
we could easily get into a situation where the part could be running with
an internal rate way lower than the optimal minimum.
For the adis16475 drivers, things were not really wrong. They were just
not optimal as we were forcing users to specify the IMU scaled internal
rate once in the devicetree. Calculating things at runtime gives much
more flexibility to choose the output rate.
Nuno Sá (4):
iio: adis: add helpers for locking
iio: adis16480: fix pps mode sampling frequency math
iio: adis16475: improve sync scale mode handling
dt-bindings: adis16475: remove property
.../bindings/iio/imu/adi,adis16475.yaml | 9 --
drivers/iio/imu/adis16475.c | 110 ++++++++++++----
drivers/iio/imu/adis16480.c | 120 +++++++++++++-----
include/linux/iio/imu/adis.h | 10 ++
4 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
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2.30.0
