From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757345Ab2IDPCl (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:02:41 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:55141 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757226Ab2IDPCj (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:02:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: add Maxim MAX197 support From: anish kumar To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen , Vivien Didelot , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Jean Delvare , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20120902145101.GA8306@roeck-us.net> References: <1346377377-24717-1-git-send-email-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> <20120831160439.GA5756@roeck-us.net> <5041D5DF.7060402@metafoo.de> <20120902145101.GA8306@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:32:28 +0530 Message-ID: <1346770948.6243.3.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 07:51 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 11:31:11AM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > > On 08/31/2012 06:04 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:42:57PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote: > > >> The MAX197 is an A/D converter, made by Maxim. This driver currently > > >> supports the MAX197, and MAX199. They are both 8-Channel, Multi-Range, > > >> 5V, 12-Bit DAS with 8+4 Bus Interface and Fault Protection. > > >> > > >> The available ranges for the MAX197 are {0,-5V} to 5V, and {0,-10V} to > > >> 10V, while they are {0,-2V} to 2V, and {0,-4V} to 4V on the MAX199. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot > > > > > > Applied to -next. > > > > > > > Hm, now it's probably to late, but for this kind of general purpose ADC the IIO > > framework is in my opinion the better place to add support for it. > > > Possibly. If someone writes an iio driver for it, and everyone agrees, > we can drop it from hwmon at that time. I can write one but unfortunately need some testing as I don't have this hardware. > > Guenter > -- > 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/