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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: test: test gain-time-scale helpers
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To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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On 1/13/24 18:12, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:12:55 +0200
> Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Some light sensors can adjust both the HW-gain and integration time.
>> There are cases where adjusting the integration time has similar impact
>> to the scale of the reported values as gain setting has.
>>
>> IIO users do typically expect to handle scale by a single writable 'scale'
>> entry. Driver should then adjust the gain/time accordingly.
>>
>> It however is difficult for a driver to know whether it should change
>> gain or integration time to meet the requested scale. Usually it is
>> preferred to have longer integration time which usually improves
>> accuracy, but there may be use-cases where long measurement times can be
>> an issue. Thus it can be preferable to allow also changing the
>> integration time - but mitigate the scale impact by also changing the gain
>> underneath. Eg, if integration time change doubles the measured values,
>> the driver can reduce the HW-gain to half.
>>
>> The theory of the computations of gain-time-scale is simple. However,
>> some people (undersigned) got that implemented wrong for more than once.
>> Hence some gain-time-scale helpers were introduced.
>>
>> Add some simple tests to verify the most hairy functions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
>>
> Hi Matti,
> 
> All seems reasonable to me. Some trivial formatting things inline
> + I'm not planning to check the maths as you are the expert in all of
> this so I'll just trust you!

Well, all checking is always welcome. Still, I kind of understand that 
you won't verify everything you see... Oh, and thanks for the trust. :)

> Also if this fails you get to pick up the pieces :)

This sure helps to trust ;)

As for things you commented - Thanks! I'll fix them and respin.

Yours,
	-- Matti

-- 
Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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