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Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:13:50 +0100
From:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benoit Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
	Patrick Titiano <ptitiano@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] hwmon: ina2xx: bail-out from ina2xx_probe() in case
 of configuration errors

2014-11-26 4:05 GMT+01:00 Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>:
> On 11/25/2014 10:30 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Repeating my earlier question: Is the resistor value changed by software
>> or by changing the probe ?
>>
>
> Looking into the available documents, I am quite sure that the resistor
> is changed by replacing the probe, in other words by pulling the board
> with the ina226 and replacing it with another one. Given that, configuring
> the shunt resistor value with a sysfs attribute is really the wrong way
> to do it; you should use probe specific devicetree overlays instead.

Yes, it's changed by replacing the probes.

As for the averaging rate: it's a programmable feature of the chip and
it's useful for our user interface for noise reduction (or the
opposite - to be able to see the actual distortion), can this be
accepted after applying the fixes according to your review?

Bart
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