Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] iio: adc: add support for the MAX34417 Four-Channel High Dynamic Range Power Accumulator

From: Neil Armstrong

Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 03:45:33 EST


Hi,

On 11/4/26 03:17, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
On Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:49:03 +0100
Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The MAX34417 is a specialized current and voltage monitor used to
determine power consumption of portable systems. The driver supports
getting the channels voltage, average power and accumulated average
power and energy over an I2C/SMBUS serial interface.
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261102-topic-sm8x50-iio-max34417-adc-v5-0-0ffa5e5f2d5c%40linaro.org

Sashiko had views and the dt one at least checks out.

I'll fix the bindings one.

But for the other reports:
- [Medium] iio: adc: max34417: shared accumulators clobbered on CAM power/energy read

This is a tough one, today if either we read power or energy, we erase the accumulated
power+count in the context, the context accumulator is only here to make sure we don't
loose data from other channels, like if we had a single HW channel.
This simulates this, if we had a single HW channel, at each UPDATE we would get back
to 0 in hardware anyway if we did read the power or energy.

- [Medium] iio: adc: max34417: missing 1 ms delay between UPDATE commands

It's unclear if we need to wait 1ms in CAM mode, I think we should but should we block
from the read if we are under the 1ms ?

- [Medium] iio: adc: max34417: scale truncation and mJ unit in max34417_read_raw()

Ok this one may be real, should we return Joules or milliJoules ? If so we could
fix our precision issue.

- [Medium] iio: adc: max34417: missing UPDATE before CAM in max34417_setup_cam_mode()

It's highly improbable, but I'll fix it.

- [Low] iio: adc: max34417: reuse max34417_reset_smm() in max34417_trigger_smm()

I'll check if it's worth it

Thanks,
Neil