linux-kernel - Re: [spi-devel-general] SPI-ADC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:20:06 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@...il.com>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <kernel@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>
Cc:	arjun rath <rath.arjun@...il.com>,
	spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [spi-devel-general] SPI-ADC

2010/2/13 Jonathan Cameron <kernel@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>:

>>> can anybody share how to start a spi based ADC linux driver.I am having a
>>> MAXIM 1242 ADC chip.
>>
>> The ḱernel does not contain any generic ADC subsystem abstraction
>> (...)
>
> That's not entirely true.  These are covered by the IIO subsystem which
> is admittedly currently in staging as some elements still need cleaning up.
> (...)
> ADC drivers are under drivers/staging/iio/adc.

Great stuff. I knew about IIO and then it fell out of my mind, how
could I...

What strikes me especially about IIO is the underlying assumption, which I
think ought to be written in clear somewhere where I missed it, and that
is that all IIO drivers are supposed to deliver values and be controller from
userspace with this nice ABI, and nothing's wrong with that of course.

But I'm hinting about a few in-kernel uses: for AB3100 we have a battery
charging mechanism, which use a (calibrated) ADC value supporting the
bulk of the driver in the power/ subsystem.

As it looks today IIO is not intended for the case where another subsystem
needs to grab and use and ADC for its own purposes. Is this correct or did
I get it all wrong?

Would you say it'd be a good idea to hack the IIO ADC interface (for
example) to be used also internally in the kernel, or would that violate
the idea behind IIO?

If these are disparate categories it would warrant a separate adc/
subsystem, see.

> Currently all discussions take place on LKML, but we are working on a more
> focused alternative list which I'll announce once it is sorted out.

LKML is just fine with me, for one.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/