Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: add Maxim MAX197 support

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 11:31:11AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 08/31/2012 06:04 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:42:57PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> >> The MAX197 is an A/D converter, made by Maxim. This driver currently
> >> supports the MAX197, and MAX199. They are both 8-Channel, Multi-Range,
> >> 5V, 12-Bit DAS with 8+4 Bus Interface and Fault Protection.
> >>
> >> The available ranges for the MAX197 are {0,-5V} to 5V, and {0,-10V} to
> >> 10V, while they are {0,-2V} to 2V, and {0,-4V} to 4V on the MAX199.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Applied to -next.
> > 
> 
> Hm, now it's probably to late, but for this kind of general purpose ADC the IIO
> framework is in my opinion the better place to add support for it.
> 
Possibly. If someone writes an iio driver for it, and everyone agrees,
we can drop it from hwmon at that time.

Guenter
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