Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: New driver for TI ADS7950 chips

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 15:35:25 EST


On 21/11/16 19:52, David Lechner wrote:
> On 11/20/2016 12:28 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>> This adds a new driver for the TI ADS7950 family of ADC chips. These
>> communicate using SPI and come in 8/10/12-bit and 4/8/12/16 channel
>> varieties.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> v2 changes:
>>
>> * Got rid of XX wildcards - using ADS7950 everywhere
>> * Fixed some macro parentheses issues
>> * Added TI_ prefix to macros to match ti_ prefixes used elsewhere
>> * Added space in rx_buf for holding timestamp
>> * Use iio_device_claim_direct_mode() and spi_message_init_with_transfers()
>> helper functions
>> * Don't use dev_info() at end of probe
>> * Minor spelling and code style fixes
>>
>> drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig | 13 ++
>> drivers/iio/adc/Makefile | 1 +
>> drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 488 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 502 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>>
>
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..d0b76bd
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>
> ...
>
>> +static irqreturn_t ti_ads7950_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
>> +{
>> + struct iio_poll_func *pf = p;
>> + struct iio_dev *indio_dev = pf->indio_dev;
>> + struct ti_ads7950_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>> + int b_sent;
>> +
>> + b_sent = spi_sync(st->spi, &st->ring_msg);
>
> hmm, I copied this from another driver, but spi_sync() in IRQ handler does not sound like a good idea (spi_sync() can sleep). I will replace it with spi_async().
Umm.. spi_async doesn't make any sense here...

Key thing is that here you are in a threaded interrupt so sleeping is fine and
here I'd imagine it leads to simpler code.

It's a bit old but https://lwn.net/Articles/302043/ has a good description.

>
>
>> + if (b_sent)
>> + goto done;
>> +
>> + iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, st->rx_buf,
>> + iio_get_time_ns(indio_dev));
>> +
>> +done:
>> + iio_trigger_notify_done(indio_dev->trig);
>> +
>> + return IRQ_HANDLED;
>> +}
>
> ...
>
>> +static int ti_ads7950_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
>> + struct iio_chan_spec const *chan,
>> + int *val, int *val2, long m)
>> +{
>> + struct ti_ads7950_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>> + int ret;
>> +
>> + switch (m) {
>> + case IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW:
>> +
>> + ret = iio_device_claim_direct_mode(indio_dev);
>> + if (ret < 0)
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> + ret = ti_ads7950_scan_direct(st, chan->address);
>> + iio_device_release_direct_mode(indio_dev);
>> + if (ret < 0)
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> + if (chan->address != TI_ADS7950_EXTRACT(ret, 12, 4))
>> + return -EIO;
>> +
>> + *val = TI_ADS7950_EXTRACT(ret, 0, 12);
>
> I'm not sure if I am doing this right. There are 8- 10- and 12-bit
> versions of this chip. The 8- and 10-bit versions still return a
> 12-bit number where the last 4 or 2 bits are always 0. Should I be
> shifting the 12-bit value here based on the chip being used so that
> *val is 0-255 for 8-bit and 0-1023 for 10-bit? Or should this be
> *really* raw and not even use TI_ADS7950_EXTRACT() to mask the
> channel address bits?
>> +
>> + return IIO_VAL_INT;
>> + case IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE:
>> + ret = ti_ads7950_get_range(st);
>> + if (ret < 0)
>> + return ret;
>> +
>> + *val = ret;
>> + *val2 = chan->scan_type.realbits;
>> +
>> + return IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL_LOG2;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +}
>
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