Re: [PATCH V5] iio: adc: Add Renesas GyroADC driver

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On 01/15/2017 03:05 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 15/01/17 00:14, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Add IIO driver for the Renesas RCar GyroADC block. This block is a
>> simple 4/8-channel ADC which samples 12/15/24 bits of data every
>> cycle from all channels.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-renesas-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> One question about the name attribute and what it gives you. Looks like another
> case of what Lars has been pointing out this morning.
> 
> We had a load of these sneak in.  Changing them would break userspace code
> so we can't fix them, but that attribute ought to give you something
> related to the part number.
> 
> Here it might even be cute to give an indication of what is connected
> to it as part of the name.

You can extract that information from the of_node, so I don't think that
is a good idea, it'd only bring in duplication:

~ # cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/of_node/adc@*/compatible
maxim,max11100

> J

[...]

>> +	ret = rcar_gyroadc_parse_subdevs(indio_dev);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	ret = rcar_gyroadc_init_supplies(indio_dev);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	priv->model = (enum rcar_gyroadc_model)of_id->data;
>> +
>> +	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, indio_dev);
>> +
>> +	indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev);
> What do you then get when you read /sys/bus/iio/iio\:deviceX/name?

e6e54000.adc

> Should be something like the part number, rather than the id of the
> parent device (I'm not 100% sure what that even is in this case!)

You mean like "rcar-gyroadc" ? That works for me, sure.

[...]

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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