Re: [PATCH 0/4] IIO wrapper drivers, dpot-dac and envelope-detector

[Peter Rosin]

On 2016-10-20 19:37, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 20 October 2016 18:30:19 BST, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 20 October 2016 13:55:12 BST, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 10/20/2016 11:25 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>>> Also, is there some agreed-upon way to dig out the maximum value from
>>>> an iio channel? If so, "dpot-dac,max-ohms" can be eliminated from the
>>>> dt bindings, which would have been nice...
>>>
>>> Yes, this is something we could really use. In a sense it exists for
>>> the
>>> devices with buffer-capable channels where there is the real_bits field
>>> which tells us the data width of the channel. But a dedicated mechanism
>>> for
>>> querying the maximum (and minimum) valid code seems like a useful
>>> feature.
>>> Not only for in-kernel clients, but also for userspace.
>>
>> This was something that was addressed by the rather ancient patch
>> series i posted that added 
>> an available call back which provided info on range and values for all
>> info mask elements.
>> Series got buried by there being a lot of precursors but quite a few of
>> those have merged since.
>>
>> Hmm Google won't let me find it on my phone. Was a while back now. Will
>> try to get on pc with
>> decent email archive later and dig out a reference.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=138469765309868&w=2 I think...

Interesting, one issue with that is that it is all in real world
units, while I'd rather have the raw value. So, I would need to
convert back to the raw value using the scale, which sounds boring
but doable. However, I wonder if calibration may also be involved
with that conversion back to raw for some channels? That sounds a
bit more driver specific and potentially troublesome...

Cheers,
Peter