linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] docs: driver-api: generic-counter: Update Count and Signal data types

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Message-ID: <9850a671-2822-24b7-3c22-b4abbd6a6b37@lechnology.com>
Date:   Sun, 6 Oct 2019 13:41:42 -0500
From:   David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>, jic23@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        patrick.havelange@...ensium.com, fabrice.gasnier@...com,
        mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] docs: driver-api: generic-counter: Update Count
 and Signal data types

On 10/6/19 11:03 AM, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Count data is now always represented as an unsigned integer, while
> Signal data is either SIGNAL_LOW or SIGNAL_HIGH.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst | 22 +++++++-------------
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
> index 8382f01a53e3..161652fc1025 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
> @@ -39,10 +39,7 @@ There are three core components to a counter:
>   COUNT
>   -----
>   A Count represents the count data for a set of Signals. The Generic
> -Counter interface provides the following available count data types:
> -
> -* COUNT_POSITION:
> -  Unsigned integer value representing position.
> +Counter interface represents the count data as an unsigned integer.

The previous patch looks like it is using unsigned long instead of
unsigned integer.