Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752990AbdF2Mau (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:30:50 -0400 Received: from www381.your-server.de ([78.46.137.84]:54374 "EHLO www381.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752953AbdF2Mas (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:30:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: Add LTC2471/LTC2473 driver To: Mike Looijmans , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org References: <1498733135-4729-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl> <1498738434-18252-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@roeck-us.net, jdelvare@suse.com, "linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" , Jonathan Cameron From: Lars-Peter Clausen Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:30:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1498738434-18252-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: lars@metafoo.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 521 Lines: 13 On 06/29/2017 02:13 PM, Mike Looijmans wrote: > The LTC2741 and LTC2473 are single voltage monitoring chips. The LTC2473 > is similar to the LTC2471 but outputs a signed differential value. > > Datasheet: > http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/datasheet/24713fb.pdf This looks more like a general purpose ADC rather than a specialized voltage monitoring chip. In my opinion this driver would be better suited for the IIO framework. But before you start working on that lets try to hear what others think about this. - Lars