linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Support ROHM BU27010 RGBC sensor

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Date:   Sat, 5 Aug 2023 19:48:15 +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>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Support ROHM BU27010 RGBC sensor

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 10:35:55 +0300
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com> wrote:

> Support ROHM BU27010 RGBC + flickering sensor.
> 
> Following description copied from commit log:
> 
> > The ROHM BU27010 is an RGBC sensor with a flickering detection FIFO. The
> > RGBC+IR sensor functionality is largely similar to what the BU27008 has.
> > There are some notable things though:
> >  - gain setting is once again new and exotic. Now, there is 6bit gain
> >    setting where 4 of the bits are common to all channels and 2 bits
> >    can be configured separately for each channel. The BU27010 has
> >    similar "1X on other channels vs 2X on IR when selector is 0x0"
> >    gain design as BU27008 had. So, we use same gain setting policy for
> >    BU27010 as we did for BU27008 - driver sets same gain selector for
> >    all channels but shows the gains separately for all channels so users
> >    can (at least in theory) detect this 1X vs 2X madness...
> >  - BU27010 has suffled all the control register bitfields to new
> >    addresses and bit positions while still keeping the register naming
> >    same.
> >  - Some more power/reset control is added.
> >  - FIFO for "flickering detection" is added.
> >
> > The control register suffling made this slightly nasty. Still, it is
> > easier for maintenance perspective to add the BU27010 support in BU27008
> > driver because - even though the bit positions/addresses were changed -
> > most of the driver structure can be re-used. Writing own driver for
> > BU27010 would mean plenty of duplicate code albeit a tad more clarity.  
> 
> Revision history:
> 
> v2 => v3:
>  - minor styling and added comment
>  - rebased on iio-fixes-for-6.5a which contains prerequisite patches
> v1 => v2:
>  - make vdd-supply required binding.
>  - Some re-ordering for struct member init.
>  - Some re-ordering for code to get rid of function declarations.
>  - Tidy up the mess from patch 2/3.
>    - Refactor parts from 3/3 to 2/3.
>    - Clean-up commented out code and tidy things in general.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for 0-day
to poke at it and see if we missed anything in review.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> 
> 
> ---
> 
> Matti Vaittinen (3):
>   dt-bindings: iio: ROHM BU27010 RGBC + flickering sensor
>   iio: light: bu27008: add chip info
>   iio: light: bd27008: Support BD27010 RGB
> 
>  .../bindings/iio/light/rohm,bu27010.yaml      |  49 ++
>  drivers/iio/light/rohm-bu27008.c              | 630 ++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/light/rohm,bu27010.yaml
> 
> 
> base-commit: 8a4629055ef55177b5b63dab1ecce676bd8cccdd