Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753103AbbKPR2H (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:28:07 -0500 Received: from saturn.retrosnub.co.uk ([178.18.118.26]:55826 "EHLO saturn.retrosnub.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbbKPR2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:28:06 -0500 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <5649A265.5060002@baylibre.com> References: <1447333052-12791-1-git-send-email-mtitinger@baylibre.com> <56478493.3030703@kernel.org> <5649A265.5060002@baylibre.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/2] iio: ina2xx: add direct IO support for TI INA2xx Power Monitors From: Jonathan Cameron Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:27:02 +0000 To: Marc Titinger , Jonathan Cameron , knaack.h@gmx.de, lars@metafoo.de, pmeerw@pmeerw.net CC: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mturquette@baylibre.com, bcousson@baylibre.com, ptitiano@baylibre.com Message-ID: <7D5B8D99-3343-4BFC-A88B-A3B0A90C9A30@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5522 Lines: 189 On 16 November 2015 09:31:17 GMT+00:00, Marc Titinger wrote: >On 14/11/2015 19:59, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 12/11/15 12:57, Marc Titinger wrote: >>> Basic support or direct IO raw read, with averaging attribute. >>> Values are RAW, INT_PLUS_MICRO (Volt/Ampere/Watt). >>> >>> Output of iio_info: >>> >>> iio:device0: ina226 >>> 4 channels found: >>> power3: (input) >>> 1 channel-specific attributes found: >>> attr 0: raw value: 1.150000 >>> voltage0: (input) >>> 1 channel-specific attributes found: >>> attr 0: raw value: 0.000003 >>> voltage1: (input) >>> 1 channel-specific attributes found: >>> attr 0: raw value: 4.277500 >>> current2: (input) >>> 1 channel-specific attributes found: >>> attr 0: raw value: 0.268000 >>> 2 device-specific attributes found: >>> attr 0: in_calibscale value: 10000 >>> attr 1: in_mean_raw value: 4 >>> attr 2: in_sampling_frequency value: 455 >>> >>> Tested with ina226, on BeagleBoneBlack. >>> >>> Datasheet: http://www.ti.com/lit/gpn/ina226 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Marc Titinger >> Hi Marc >> > >Hi Jonathan, > >> To express a personal preference, please don't have series of patches >as >> replies to the original thread. It gets really hard to follow after >> a couple of revisions! >> >Ok, sorry for that. > >> May seem a random question, but what do you want to gain from an IIO >> driver over what the hwmon provides? > >Good question. In the frame of Baylibre's ACME power and temperature >monitoring demo based on Sigrock, we wish to add a remote mode for the >GUI and processing front-end as well as explore other possibilities >like >using an on-board accelerator to capture the sensor data and stream it >back to the front-end. This work is a pathfinder as IIO seems >appropriate for what we want to do. Fair enough I guess. Will need to check we aren't stepping on too many toes in hwmon if we merge a second driver... > >> >> Various bits inline.. > >Thanks for the review, further questions below! > >Marc. > >> >> Mostly looks pretty good though. >> >> Jonathan >>> --- >>> > >... > >>> +#define INA2XX_RSHUNT_DEFAULT 10000 >>> + >>> +/* bit mask for reading the averaging setting in the configuration >register */ >>> +#define INA226_AVG_RD_MASK 0x0E00 >> genmask is always good for these. >> > >ok. > >.. > >>> + >>> +static bool ina2xx_is_writeable_reg(struct device *dev, unsigned >int reg) >>> +{ >>> + return (reg == INA2XX_CONFIG) >>> + || (reg == INA2XX_CALIBRATION); >> On one line I think this is still way less than 80 chars.. >>> +} > >ok > >... > > >>> +struct ina2xx_chip_info { >>> + struct iio_dev *indio_dev; >> Having a pointer back to the indio_dev is usually a sign of >> something 'unusual' going on... Will be interesting to see what it >is for ;) >> >> Ah, that was easy, you don't use it that I can see. >> > >Ah, forgot to remove it when splitting into two patches, but yeah >you're >right, I shall pass the indio_dev ptr as data in the first place. > >... > >>> + >>> +static int ina2xx_get_value(struct ina2xx_chip_info *chip, u8 reg, >>> + unsigned int regval, int *val, int *uval) >>> +{ >>> + *val = 0; >>> + >>> + switch (reg) { >>> + case INA2XX_SHUNT_VOLTAGE: >>> + /* signed register */ >>> + *uval = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST((s16) regval, >>> + chip->config->shunt_div); >>> + *val = *uval/1000000; >>> + *uval = *uval - *val*1000000; >>> + return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO; >> I'm somewhat unconvinced that this wrapper is adding anything over >> just doing this where you care about the result. >> Also, this is a straight forward linear conversion. Do it in >userspace >> by providing the relevant 'scale' element. > >got it! A practical question: can you specify a divider rather than a >multiplier as a scale so that userspace does the division? Sort of see IIO_TYPE_FRACTIONAL > >>> + >>> + case INA2XX_BUS_VOLTAGE: >>> + *uval = (regval >> chip->config->bus_voltage_shift) >>> + * chip->config->bus_voltage_lsb; >>> + *val = *uval/1000000; >>> + *uval = *uval - *val*1000000; >>> + return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO; >... > >>> + tmp = config; >>> + >>> + switch (mask) { >>> + case IIO_CHAN_INFO_AVERAGE_RAW: >>> + >>> + ret = ina226_set_average(chip, val, &tmp); >> This isn't what the ABI uses the info_average_raw attribute for - >it's >> for outputing the average of a channel rather than setting a mean >> filter width (which is what you have here). Probably need some new >ABI >> for this as our current filter description ABI is rather limited! >> >Ah ok, should this go into a sysfs attribute then, until the ABI >section >is defined ? How about specifying the ABI section while we are at it ? Go ahead and have a go at defining a suitable ABI :) Post it as a separate RFC though as discussion might be rather in depth and not really driver related. > >... > >.driver_module = THIS_MODULE, >>> +}; >>> + >>> +/* >> Single line comment, use single line comment syntax. > >ok -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/