Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-20 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
Again thanks for the feedback, Jonathan ! On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:32 AM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Looks to me like that happens (I haven't checked that thoroughly) via > kernfs_fops_write which takes a mutex - so we have a barrier. > Yes, if there's a mutex in the path somewhere (which sysfs

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-20 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:35:51 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks again for your clear and extensive feedback ! > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Jonathan Cameron > wrote: > > > > I suspect that would break lots of devices if it happened, but > > fair enough that explici

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-18 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
Hi Jonathan, Thanks again for your clear and extensive feedback ! On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > I suspect that would break lots of devices if it happened, but > fair enough that explicit might be good. One option would be > to document clearly in regmap the requir

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-18 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
Hello Jonathan, First of all, thank you so much for taking the time for such a detailed reply ! On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:22 AM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > So, what I'm reading above is worrying. The interrupt is cleared > by the read of the data registers? I thought the datasheet allowed

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-18 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:25:39 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > Hi Bobby, > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:17 PM Robert Eshleman > wrote: > > > > First, thank you for the feedback. > > First of all, thank _you_ for doing the hard work on this driver ! > I very much respect what you've done here.

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-18 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:40:13 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 3:47 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > Hi Sven I think the issue, here is that you are putting guarantees on 'consistency' that IIO does not imply. In fact as I mention below, for many sensors it is not poss

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-13 Thread Robert Eshleman
Hey Peter, Thanks for the feedback. I have a question regarding INFO_SCALE and the calibration scale/bias below. Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated. On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 03:58:27PM +0100, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, Robert Eshleman wrote: > > > This patc

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-13 Thread Robert Eshleman
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:47:30PM +, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:30:18 -0500 > Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:27 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > > > Agreed. Or potentially just use regmap_bulk_read and rely on > > > the regmap internal lock

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-12 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:40 PM Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > > Next, read ALS and PS _exclusively_ in the irq handler, guard it with > a mutex: > Wait a second, that wouldn't work, because we don't get an interrupt on every ALS/PS conversion, correct ? In that case, don't cache the als/ps value i

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-12 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 3:47 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > Good question on whether it is guaranteed to read in increasing register > order (I didn't actually check the addresses are in increasing order > but assume they are or you would have pointed that out ;) > > That strikes me as behaviour

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-12 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
Hi Bobby, On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 9:17 PM Robert Eshleman wrote: > > First, thank you for the feedback. First of all, thank _you_ for doing the hard work on this driver ! I very much respect what you've done here. > > I had initially went with a similar design, but there is > the case in which

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-12 Thread Robert Eshleman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 02:29:58PM -0500, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 3:39 PM Robert Eshleman > wrote: > > > > This patch adds support for the ap3216c ambient light and proximity > > sensor. > > PS > > Why not use the chip in the mode where the interrupt is automatically

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-12 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:30:18 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:27 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > > > Agreed. Or potentially just use regmap_bulk_read and rely on > > the regmap internal locking to do it for you. > > Neat solution. But it may only work correctly iff r

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-11 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:27 PM Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Agreed. Or potentially just use regmap_bulk_read and rely on > the regmap internal locking to do it for you. Neat solution. But it may only work correctly iff regmap_bulk_read() reads the low address first. I'm not sure if this function

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-11 Thread Jonathan Cameron
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:09:12 -0500 Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 3:39 PM Robert Eshleman > wrote: > > > > This patch adds support for the ap3216c ambient light and proximity > > sensor. > > Comments below. > Follow up inline... Mostly looks good to me,

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-11 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 3:39 PM Robert Eshleman wrote: > > This patch adds support for the ap3216c ambient light and proximity > sensor. PS Why not use the chip in the mode where the interrupt is automatically cleared by reading the data? This could work if you read the data in the interrupt rou

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-11 Thread Sven Van Asbroeck
Hi Robert, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 3:39 PM Robert Eshleman wrote: > > This patch adds support for the ap3216c ambient light and proximity > sensor. Comments below. > > Supported features include: > > * Illuminance (lux) > * Proximity (raw) > * IR (raw) > * Rising/falling threshold events for il

Re: [PATCH 1/3] iio: light: Add driver for ap3216c

2019-02-11 Thread Peter Meerwald-Stadler
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, Robert Eshleman wrote: > This patch adds support for the ap3216c ambient light and proximity > sensor. comments below > Supported features include: > > * Illuminance (lux) > * Proximity (raw) > * IR (raw) > * Rising/falling threshold events for illuminance and proximity >