Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ina3221: Add support for IIO ADC driver for TI INA3221

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 09:29:50 EST


On 06/03/2016 03:06 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On 01/06/16 13:34, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
The INA3221 is a three-channel, high-side current and bus voltage monitor
with an I2C interface from Texas Instruments. The INA3221 monitors both
shunt voltage drops and bus supply voltages in addition to having
programmable conversion times and averaging modes for these signals.
The INA3221 offers both critical and warning alerts to detect multiple
programmable out-of-range conditions for each channel.

Add support for INA3221 SW driver via IIO ADC interface. The device is
register as iio-device and provides interface for voltage/current and power
monitor. Also provide interface for setting oneshot/continuous mode and
critical/warning threshold for the shunt voltage drop.

Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Laxman,

As ever with any driver lying on the border of IIO and hwmon, please include
a short justification of why you need an IIO driver and also cc the
hwmon list + maintainers. (cc'd on this reply).

I simply won't take a driver where the hwmon maintainers aren't happy.
As it stands I'm not seeing obvious reasons in the code for why this
should be an IIO device.


Me not either.

I have a hwmon driver for the same chip pending from Andrew Davis (TI)
which I am just about to accept. We had directed Andrew back in April
to write a hwmon driver for the chip, which he did.

Guenter