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Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 16:25:07 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] Add support for Allwinner GPADC on
D1/T113s/R329 SoCs
On Sun, 28 May 2023 16:22:57 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2023 14:36:28 +0300
> Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> > thanks for you comments
> >
> > > This may sound kind of obvious, but wouldn't it be easier to model this
> > > with one compatible string, and have the number of channels as a DT
> > > property?
> >
> > Yes, I completely agree that using separate config for each SoCs is looks
> > overcomplicated because the only difference is the number of channels.
> > I thought about a DT property with channels number but I didn't find
> > another ADC driver with the same approach (except i2c ADC's with child nodes).
> If you are 100% sure that that devices are either
> 1) Detectable at runtime
> 2) Identical in functionality.
>
> So that in neither case will any changes on driver support expose differences
> in the future then a single compatible is fine.
>
> The back up is that you use fallback compatibles - list more than one.
> Whilst it doesn't matter (as no differences found) the driver can use
> the first one. If differences become apparent later, others may be used.
>
> I'm not however keen on a simple channel count parameter. If you want
> to go that way, it's better to provide the fine control of individual channel
> child nodes (see Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/adc.yaml)
>
> That way the control is on which channels are wired to something useful, rather
> than whether the device can read them or not (which is pointless if no one
> wired them up.
Another thing to note is that with generic compatibles you loose the ability
to have the dt-schmema validate that sets of parameters make sense. If it's
just the channels available that may not matter however.
>
>
> >
> > > Or, alternatively, using iio/multiplexer/io-channel-mux.yaml, since it's
> > > only one ADC anyway?
> > I'm sorry, I didn't quite understand what you're suggesting.
>
> That's normally only used for a separate MUX where we need a separate driver
> to handle it. If used on a device like this it would expose additional complexity
> to userspace with no benefits in generality etc.
>
> >
> > > And btw: it seems that the T507 (the H616 die with a different pinout) has
> > > the same IP, with four channels:
> > > http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/T507/
> >
> > Oh, thanks for pointing that. I'll add it to the list in the next version.
>
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