linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] meson saradc: support reading from channel 7 mux inputs

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2023 21:39:18 +0200
From:   Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Cc:     George Stark <gnstark@...rdevices.ru>, jic23@...nel.org,
        lars@...afoo.de, neil.armstrong@...aro.org, khilman@...libre.com,
        jbrunet@...libre.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        nuno.sa@...log.com, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...rdevices.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] meson saradc: support reading from channel 7 mux inputs

Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 11:21 AM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com> wrote:
[...]
> > @@ -235,6 +249,27 @@ enum meson_sar_adc_channel_index {
> >       NUM_CHAN_7,
> >       NUM_CHAN_TEMP,
> >       NUM_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP,
>
> Silly question... Why does this device have timestamp channels?
> It has no buffer support so they don't 'do anything'.
> If it had then putting other channels after that might have broken
> things if not done very carefully (hence I went looking)
This question is probably for me (not George).
The answer is simple: when I wrote the Meson SAR ADC driver I looked
at various other drivers (but can't recall which ones exactly). One of
them probably used a soft timestamp channel so I also added that to
meson_saradc. Since "it didn't break anything" I thought it would be
fine.

Newer SAR ADC IP blocks have buffer support, but that's not
implemented in the driver (yet).
So if I understand you correctly we can drop the soft timestamp
channel (with a dedicated patch in this series)?


Best regards,
Martin