From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (ina2xx) Shift INA234 shunt and current registers
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 09:02:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <245e095d-d357-4fb7-b202-4b63e5cfbee6@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260303-ina234-shift-v1-2-318c33ac4480@pengutronix.de>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 12:07:02PM +0100, Jonas Rebmann wrote:
> The INA219 has the lowest three bits of the bus voltage register
> zero-reserved, the bus_voltage_shift ina2xx_config field was introduced
> to accommodate for that.
>
> The INA234 has four bits of the bus voltage, of the shunt voltage, and
> of the current registers zero-reserved but the latter two were
> implemented by choosing a 16x higher shunt_div instead of a separate
> field specifying a bit shift.
>
> This is possible because shunt voltage and current are divided by
> shunt_div, hence a 16x higher shunt_div results in a 16x smaller LSB for
> both the shunt voltage and the current register, perfectly accounting
> for the missing bit shift.
>
> For consistency and correctness, account for the reserved bits via
> shunt_voltage_shift and current_shift configuration fields as already
> done for voltage registers and use the conversion constants given in the
> INA234 datasheet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Applied.
Thanks,
Guenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-03 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-03 11:07 [PATCH 0/2] hwmon: ina2xx conistency improvements Jonas Rebmann
2026-03-03 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (ina2xx) clean up unused macro and outdated comment Jonas Rebmann
2026-03-03 17:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-03-03 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (ina2xx) Shift INA234 shunt and current registers Jonas Rebmann
2026-03-03 17:02 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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