Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] iio: adc: Support ROHM BD79124 ADC

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 09:07:30AM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 14/03/2025 16:37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:22:37AM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

...

> > Okay, it seems I misinterpreted the values you have in regmap configuration,
> > I was under the impression that regmap is 16-bit data, but it is about address.
> > 
> > So, we need to know why the heck HW has sparse registers
> 
> We don't know. And we really don't even need to know it. We can just use
> this device knowing there are some.

Don't you have a channel to ask HW engineers about this?

> > for what is supposed
> > to be sequential. This needs a good comment.
> 
> I think it is quite usual that devices contain undocumented registers. Not
> sure having a comment that this device also has some, adds much of value? I
> suppose I can add a comment that we can't use bulk_write because registers
> aren't in subsequent addresses - but having just removed bunch of
> unnecessary comments from the code (as requested), I'm not sure adding this
> one really improves situation... When one sees separate reads/writes for
> data spread to multiple registers, he is likely to assume addresses aren't
> subsequent.


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