On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:54 -0400, Paul Thomas wrote: > > No, both of those are runtime options internal to the ads7871, and > > because we initiate a read by setting that register anyway there isn't > > any additional setup cost (at least there isn't any spi cost, there is > > a little additional code in show_voltage). > > This isn't a matter of cost, but a matter of maintaining a consistent ABI. A brief look into the datasheet shows that the chip is a generic adc. So I assume its use is not limited to voltage monitoring, and that you would in fact expect to change the gain during runtime (ie not only at system startup). Is this a correct assumption ? Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors