Re: [PATCH 0/3] MAX6675 IIO temperature driver

From: Daniel Baluta
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 04:33:36 EST


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3 August 2015 21:56:47 BST, Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >This series adds a driver for the MAX6675 SPI thermocouple converter.
>> >The device supports temperature measurements via type-K thermocouples
>> >and implements cold-junction compensation within the part. The
>> >datasheet
>> >can be found at http://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX6675.pdf
>> For a device like this where perhaps it's position wrt iio/hwmon boundary is unclear
>> I want to see an argument for why IIO makes more sense in the cover letter + cc
>> at least the hwmon MAINTAINERS if not the list...
>
> Will do. Just to summarize here, the typical use case for this type of
> thermocouple converter involves sample rates that are relatively high
> compared to what the hwmon interface can support. The upcoming hrtimer
> trigger will match up well with this to support fine-grained
> periodic samples. I'll add this in the v2 cover latter.

Are we talking about this hrtimer trigger patches:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=143109196107382&w=2

Right? I've been busy with some other things, but I hope to have a
final version by Sunday :).

thanks,
Daniel.
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