linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iio: add documentation for iio_chan_info

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Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:19:36 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
Cc:     Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@....it>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Jagath Jog J <jagathjog1996@...il.com>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] iio: add documentation for iio_chan_info_enum

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:52:05 +0300
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com> wrote:

> On 4/8/23 13:30, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:55:25 +0200
> > Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> + * @IIO_CHAN_INFO_INT_TIME:	Integration time. Time during which the data is
> >> + *				accumulated by the device.  
> > 
> > Unit? (seconds I think).  
> 
> Holy moly. Thanks for bringing this up now. I just checked this and the 
> API doc indeed says clearly and loud the unit is in seconds. This means 
> the BU27034 driver as well as the gain-time-scale helper does this 
> wrong. I hope you can postpone sending them upstream until this gets 
> fixed. I'll try to cook incremental patch on top of the iio/togreg - but 
> I am not sure if I can do it today as I need to run after an hour... 
> Sorry and thanks!

It's a fix so we have time.  This one we'd take even if the driver
had made it to a release, but then we'd manage to annoy people.

Jonathan

> 
> Yours,
> 	-- Matti
>