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

[Peter Rosin]

On 2016-10-21 09:17, jic23@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 20.10.2016 19:17, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> On 2016-10-20 19:37, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> 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.
> Um.. It's been a while, but the principle was (IIRC) that every
> _available would match the units fo the associated info mask element.
> Thus if you have a _raw element it would be in adc counts (most likely).
> 
> _input would be in relevant real world units, scale etc in the whatever
> units the value itself is in.

Ah, that was just me totally misreading the patch. I didn't realize
that the iio_format_value function is also used for raw values and
assumed it was all about real world units when that function was
used. Feel rather silly ATM...

>> 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...
> I've not had a chance to look at your code (only picked up on this as
> there was a fair length thread developing), but I wouldn't have thought 
> we'd
> need to deal with calibrations.   Might need them to move to real world
> units from raw but that's always the case anyway (unfortunately).

Right.

Cheers,
Peter