Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:18:46 +0200 | From | leroy christophe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IIO AD7923 iio_consumer support |
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Le 05/10/2013 10:41, Lars-Peter Clausen a écrit : > On 10/05/2013 10:21 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> + .consumer_channel = "channel_0", >> + .adc_channel_label = "0", >> + }, >> + { >> + .consumer_dev_name = AD7923_NAME, >> + .consumer_channel = "channel_1", >> + .adc_channel_label = "1", >> + }, >> + { >> + .consumer_dev_name = AD7923_NAME, >> + .consumer_channel = "channel_2", >> + .adc_channel_label = "2", >> + }, >> + { >> + .consumer_dev_name = AD7923_NAME, >> + .consumer_channel = "channel_3", >> + .adc_channel_label = "3", >> + }, >> + { } >> +}; > This is a mapping between channel names of the provider between the channel > names of the consumer. So it is specific to a certain combination of > consumer and provider and usually depend on how things are physically wired > on your board. As such there can be no generic mapping and this needs to go > into your machine/board driver. The mapping is usually passed to the IIO > driver via its platform data. > > So e.g. imagine you have a provider like this driver and you have a consumer > that has a "voltage" channel. And on your board channel 3 of the ADC is what > you want to route to that consumer. Then your mapping would look like this: > > { > .consumer_dev_name = "your_consumer_device.1", > .consumer_channel = "voltage", > .adc_channel_label = "AIN3", > } > > And in your consumer driver you'd do: > > channel = iio_channel_get(dev, "voltage"); > > Thanks for the explanation.
Can the mapping be retrieved via of_platform ?
Indeed, the only exemple I found was in the lp8788_adc driver, which includes iio/machine.h and declares a default mapping, but it is based on platform_data, not of_platform.
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