Re: [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: devicetree: Add property for controlling power saving mode for the us5182 als sensor

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:50:30AM +0200, Adriana Reus wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25.11.2015 02:01, Rob Herring wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:59:49PM +0200, Adriana Reus wrote:
> >>Add a property to allow changing the default power-saving mode.
> >>By default, at read raw the chip will activate and provide
> >>one measurent, then it will shut itself down. However, the
> >>chip can also work in "continuous" mode which may be more reliable
> >>but is also more power consuming.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Adriana Reus <adriana.reus@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/us5182d.txt | 11 +++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/us5182d.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/us5182d.txt
> >>index 6f0a530..a619799 100644
> >>--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/us5182d.txt
> >>+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/us5182d.txt
> >>@@ -7,13 +7,24 @@ Required properties:
> >>  Optional properties:
> >>  - upisemi,glass-coef: glass attenuation factor - compensation factor of
> >>                        resolution 1000 for material transmittance.
> >>+
> >>  - upisemi,dark-ths: array of 8 elements containing 16-bit thresholds (adc
> >>                      counts) corresponding to every scale.
> >>+
> >>  - upisemi,upper-dark-gain: 8-bit dark gain compensation factor(4 int and 4
> >>                             fractional bits - Q4.4) applied when light > threshold
> >>+
> >>  - upisemi,lower-dark-gain: 8-bit dark gain compensation factor(4 int and 4
> >>                             fractional bits - Q4.4) applied when light < threshold
> >>
> >>+- upisemi,continuous: This chip has two power modes: one-shot (chip takes one
> >>+                      measurement and then shuts itself down) and continuous (
> >>+                      chip takes continuous measurements). The one-shot mode is
> >>+                      more power-friendly but the continuous mode may be more
> >>+                      reliable. If this property is specified the continuous
> >>+                      mode will be used instead of the default one-shot one for
> >>+                      raw reads.
> >
> >I could imagine an OS may want to decide this on its own or use a
> >mixture of the modes.
> >
> >Rob
> >
> 
> There is no possibility of mixing them up (at the same time), so for example
> proximity cannot work in one mode and als the other.
> 
> The one-shot mode can only be used for raw reads (for example when
> user-space polls in_[proximity|light]_raw). If user-space wants to enable
> events (activate interrupts when certain thresholds are met - patch 5 of the
> series), then the chip has to switch to continuous nonetheless because it
> needs to be active all the time. So one work-flow scenario would be:
> 
> Consumer1 starts polling the raw interface - default_mode
> Consumer2 activates events - continuous mode
> Consumer2 deactivates events - back to default_mode
> 
> The only choice here is the default mode for raw reads, it currently is
> one-shot, this patch allows for continuous to be used if preferred.

Okay, then:

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

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