Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] iio: light: as73211: New driver

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 8/4/20 9:40 AM, Christian Eggers wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 August 2020, 20:02:35 CEST, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Thanks for an update, my comments below.
> Thanks for the review. Please see below for my questions.
>
> Best regards
> Christian
>
> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 7:40 PM Christian Eggers <ceggers@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Datasheet:
> > > https://ams.com/documents/20143/36005/AS73211_DS000556_3-01.pdf/a65474c0-
> > > b302-c2fd-e30a-c98df87616df
> > Do we need the UUID after the document file name?
> I have send AMS an inquiry. Not sure whether I will get an answer. I will wait
> a few days until sending v6.
>
> > > +#define AS73211_OFFSET_TEMP (-66.9)
> > > +#define AS73211_SCALE_TEMP  0.05
> > In the kernel we don't do float arithmetic. How these are being used?
> Does this restriction also apply for compile time constants? I am quite
> sure that all calculations using these defines will be evaluated at compile
> time. If found a number of other places where probably the same is done:
>
> find . -name '*.c' | xargs grep "#define.*[0-9]\.[0-9]" | grep -v '"' | grep -v "\/\*.*[0-9]\.[0-9]"

I believe it is implementation defined. The compiler is free to generate 
floating math and do the conversion at runtime. Although it is probably 
safe to assume that no reasonable compiler will do this for your code. 
If only we had constexpr in C, then there was a way to make it 
guaranteed that the conversion happens during compile time.

But I agree with you, it would be nice to have a cleaner way of 
declaring fixed point numbers without having to pay attention to how 
many 0s you have to put after the least significant digit.