linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] iio: add unit converter

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdYPayHqYdFMmts20yLRdMEy6SW-qqnC+BsYip-RdN2HSQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 24 Mar 2018 17:34:17 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] iio: add unit converter

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:59:41 +0100
> Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se> wrote:

>> So, not super-happy about that either. And maybe leave the mux
>> where it is? It's just that I have the feeling that the iio-mux
>> is never going to get any friends in its category, and the mux
>> and the unit-converter are kind of related in that they operate
>> on other channels. But maybe that's only logical it you know how
>> they are implemented...
>
> Perhaps Analog Front ends?
> We could move the amplifier driver into the same directory as well,
> though right now that driver is not passing the channels through
> (it's often used without there being an IIO ADC behind it I think...)

(passive) linear scaler?
analog linear scaler?
But maybe these supersets are not broad enough.

Or just invent another acronym akin to "PHY" such as
"AIF" (analog interface)?

Yours,
Linus Walleij