[PATCH v2 0/3] iio: add support for multiple scan types

[David Lechner]

Up to now, the IIO subsystem has only supported a single scan type per
channel. This scan type determines the binary format of the data in the
buffer when doing buffered reads.

For simple devices, there is only one scan type and all is well. But
for more complex devices, there may be multiple scan types. For example,
ADCs with an resolution boost feature that adds more bits to the raw
sample data. Traditionally, for slow devices, we've just always used the
highest resolution mode, but for high performance ADCs, this may not be
always practical. Manipulating data after every read can hurt performance
and in the case of hardware buffers, it may not be possible to change the
format of the data in the buffer at all. There are also ADCs where
enabling the higher resolution can only be done if oversampling is also
enabled which may not be desireable.

To allow for more flexibility, we would like to add support for multiple
scan types per channel.

To avoid having to touch every driver, we implemented this in a way that
preserves the existing scan_type field. See the "iio: add support for
multiple scan types per channel" the details. The first couple of patches
are just preparation for this.

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Changes in v2:
- Use union for scan_type and scan_type_ext.
- Dropped ad7380 patch - those changed will be squashed into the next
  revision of the series adding the driver for ad7380.
- Temporary updated ad7380 patch for reference: https://github.com/dlech/linux/commit/64be3de241e73b43c5a5daa44b6b97f35f0743bf
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507-iio-add-support-for-multiple-scan-types-v1-0-95ac33ee51e9@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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David Lechner (3):
      iio: introduce struct iio_scan_type
      iio: buffer: use struct iio_scan_type to simplify code
      iio: add support for multiple scan types per channel

 drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/linux/iio/iio.h           | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 6c46802cc0c4ff878f07139f7b7b8774fd43ce3d
change-id: 20240507-iio-add-support-for-multiple-scan-types-f4dbcf4c2cb8