On 18/10/14 12:50, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 10/18/2014 01:42 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 02/10/14 13:32, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
>>> When #iio-cells is greater than '0', the driver could provide
>>> a custom of_xlate function that reads the *args* and returns
>>> the appropriate index in registered IIO channels array.
>>>
>>> Add simple translation function, suitable for the most 1:1
>>> mapped channels in IIO chips, and use it when driver did not
>>> provide custom implementation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ivan T. Ivanov <iiva...@mm-sol.com>
>> Any more comments on this?  Been sat a while and the discussions seems
>> to have died out.
>>
>> As Ivan has pointed out, very similar approaches are used
>> elsewhere (gpio for example).
> 
> Looks good to me:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <l...@metafoo.de>
> 
> When we initially added the DT support to IIO I was hoping that we can get 
> away
> with just using the simple and generic xlate function for all devices. But it
> looks as if some more complex devices need to overwrite it. We should be 
> careful
> about adding new driver specific xlate implementations and make sure that it 
> is
> actually needed.
> 
> One thing we might want to consider though is instead of adding the xlate
> callback to the iio_dev struct add it to the iio_info struct since it should 
> be
> the same for different device instances of the same driver. And this is also
> where all the other callbacks are.
Good point - would definitely prefer that.

J
> 
> - Lars
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