Re: [PATCH v7 03/10] iio: adc: add helpers for parsing ADC nodes

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Mar 16 2025 - 05:38:36 EST


On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:18:18 +0200
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are ADC ICs which may have some of the AIN pins usable for other
> functions. These ICs may have some of the AIN pins wired so that they
> should not be used for ADC.
>
> (Preferred?) way for marking pins which can be used as ADC inputs is to
> add corresponding channels@N nodes in the device tree as described in
> the ADC binding yaml.
>
> Add couple of helper functions which can be used to retrieve the channel
> information from the device node.
I suspect we'll need the addition of an optional trailing timestamp
channel at somepoint. But we can add that when we need it as only
matters for drivers doing iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp()

Otherwise no additional comments from me.