Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935835Ab2JaSHo (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:07:44 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-183.synserver.de ([212.40.185.183]:1222 "EHLO smtp-out-183.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933506Ab2JaSHn (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:07:43 -0400 X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: lars@metafoo.de X-SynServer-PPID: 19185 Message-ID: <509168EF.9040000@metafoo.de> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:07:43 +0100 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.10) Gecko/20121027 Icedove/10.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pantelis Antoniou CC: Jonathan Cameron , "Patil, Rachna" , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Koen Kooi , Matt Porter , Russ Dill , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ti_adc: Update with IIO map interface References: <1351783496-11557-1-git-send-email-panto@antoniou-consulting.com> <50916563.8080704@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1556 Lines: 40 On 10/31/2012 06:55 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > [...] >>> } >>> >>> indio_dev->channels = chan_array; >>> + indio_dev->num_channels = channels; >>> + >>> + size = (channels + 1) * sizeof(struct iio_map); >>> + adc_dev->map = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); >>> + if (adc_dev->map == NULL) { >>> + kfree(chan_array); >>> + return -ENOMEM; >>> + } >>> + >>> + for (i = 0; i < indio_dev->num_channels; i++) { >>> + adc_dev->map[i].adc_channel_label = chan_array[i].datasheet_name; >>> + adc_dev->map[i].consumer_dev_name = "any"; >>> + adc_dev->map[i].consumer_channel = chan_array[i].datasheet_name; >>> + } >>> + adc_dev->map[i].adc_channel_label = NULL; >>> + adc_dev->map[i].consumer_dev_name = NULL; >>> + adc_dev->map[i].consumer_channel = NULL; >> >> The map should be passed in via platform data or similar. All the fields of >> the map depend on the specific user, so you can't use a generic map. In fact >> if we were able to use a generic map, we wouldn't need a map at all. > > There's no platform data in the board I'm using. It's board-generic using > device tree only. That's the 'or similar' ;) Unfortunately we do not have a device tree binding for IIO yet. But I think we should aim at a interface similar like we have in other subsystems like the clk, regulator or dma framework. - Lars -- 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/