Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] iio: gyro: Add driver support for ADXRS290

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 17:39:03 EST


On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:35 PM Nishant Malpani
<nish.malpani25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 22/07/20 1:16 am, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:20 PM Nishant Malpani
> > <nish.malpani25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> >> + *vals = (const int *)adxrs290_lpf_3db_freq_tbl;
> >
> > Why casting?
> >
> adxrs290_lpf_3db_freq_tbl is of type (int *)[2], right? Without the
> casting, an incompatible-pointer-type error is thrown.
>
> > ...
> >
> >> + *vals = (const int *)adxrs290_hpf_3db_freq_tbl;
> >
> > Ditto.
> >
> See above comment.

Can't you declare table as const int?

...

> >> + /* max transition time to measurement mode */
> >> + msleep_interruptible(ADXRS290_MAX_TRANSITION_TIME_MS);
> >
> > I'm not sure what the point of interruptible variant here?
> >
> I referred Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst for this.
> My reasoning was shaped to use the interruptible variant because the
> transition settles in a time *less than* 100ms and since 100ms is quite
> a huge time to sleep, it should be interrupted in case a signal arrives.

This is probe of the device,
What are the expectations here?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko