Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] iio: adc: ad7124: add external clock support

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Aug 26 2025 - 04:11:22 EST


On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add support for an external clock source to the AD7124 ADC driver.
>
> Previously, the driver only supported using the internal clock and had
> bad devicetree bindings that used a fake clock to essentially select
> the power mode. This is preserved for backwards compatibility.
>
> If the clock is not named "mclk", then we know that the devicetree is
> using the correct bindings and we can configure the chip to use an
> external clock source rather than internal.
>
> Also drop a redundant comment when configuring the register fields
> instead of adding more.

...

> + /*
> + * The external clock may be 4x the nominal clock rate,
> + * in which case the ADC needs to be configured to
> + * divide it by 4. Using MEGA is a bit arbitrary, but
> + * the expected clock rates are either 614.4 kHz or
> + * 2.4576 MHz, so this should work.
> + */
> + if (clk_hz > MEGA)

This is (1 * HZ_PER_MHZ), but as the comment says, this arbitrary
check may be improved by using the exact values.

> + clk_sel = AD7124_ADC_CONTROL_CLK_SEL_EXT_DIV4;
> + else
> + clk_sel = AD7124_ADC_CONTROL_CLK_SEL_EXT;

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko