Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: iio: stm32-adc: add option to set resolution

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 10:28:08 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:04:45PM +0100, Fabrice Gasnier wrote:
> On 02/19/2017 01:09 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On 15/02/17 16:55, Fabrice Gasnier wrote:
> > > Add documentation for 'st,adc-res' dt optional property.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxx>
> > I'm happy with this, but would like to leave time for a device tree review.
> >
> > Ultimately we may well want to make this a generic property and call it something
> > like adc-resolution but perhaps we need to wait until we have a few more devices
> > supporting setting it via device tree to figure out what the best interface is.
> > It would exactly be a problem to support this as a deprecated binding at that
> > point.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I agree with you on this... It may be better to have generic property
> for this, especially if you see that it will come in the near future.
> May I suggest this prop to be less restrictive, e.g. like resolution-bits as
> is may also be worth for other device types, e.g. DAC as an example ?

Yes, please make this a commmon property.

Rob