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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:54:11 +0200
From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
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To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
        Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: Fix iio_validate_scan_mask_oneshot function name
 typo
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On 07/19/2015 11:49 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 18/07/15 15:31, Cristina Opriceana wrote:
>> Rename function to iio_validate_scan_mask_oneshot() since it's used to
>> validate that only one channel is selected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana@gmail.com>
> I'm sure Lars (who I think named it?) will come back with a fuller response, but
> I believe the naming (if not necessarily clear!) was deliberate.
>
> one hot - as in only one channel is enabled at a time.
> oneshot - only a single reading of all channels is taken
> (like a one shot interrupt).

Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot

Thanks.
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