Re: [PATCH v4] iio: add LM3533 ambient-light-sensor driver

[Jonathan Cameron]

On 5/22/2012 8:45 AM, Michael Hennerich wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 06:37 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > Michael cc'd for comments on core support of some stuff that is also
> > in frequency drivers down the end of the email.
> >
> > On 05/21/2012 10:50 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 09:48:23AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > > On 05/18/2012 02:07 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > > So to summarise, we get the following new sysfs-entries for the ALS
> > > > (where the first set replace targetX_Y):
> > > >
> > > > out_currentX_currentY_raw r/w, (0..255), X in 0..2, Y in 0..4
> > > > out_currentX_raw ro (0..255), X in 0..2
> > > >
> > > > Is there any support in core for the first set or should I simply
> > > > rename my target attributes?
> > No support in the core yet for this sort of thing..
> > Michael, any thoughts on this? In a sense it's very similar to
> > out_altvoltageX_frequencyY_raw etc...
> Hi,
>
> Exactly it's similar to what we have on the DDS parts.
> The DDS parts would also benefit from a second index.
>
> Can someone think of an use case where we have 'differential' or 'modified'
> together with this pattern?
>
> If not we could use channel2 and introduce an new flag, but I fear
> that we end up using channel2 for too many things.
> So we should better introduce an new variable?
New variable. Tedious but channel2 is getting rather too overloaded.


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