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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Monday, 24 November 2025 16:40:37 CET Guenter Roeck wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > Do you think that using the IIO consumer API is not correct here? What</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > other</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > method do you think I should use?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Ok, I had a look into the datasheet. Unless I am missing something, the chip</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> doesn't have a digital control or monitoring interface such as I2C or SPI.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> At the same time, you copied the hardware monitoring mailing list on this</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> summary and on (at least) one of the patches, but apparently not on all of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> them. This lead to my apparently wrong assumption that iio is used to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> monitor (not [just] control) something on the chip. I wrongly assumed that</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> IIO is used to report chip status (voltage, current, temperature) using an</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> internal DAC. Obviously that was a wrong assumption. Sorry for that.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Apparently you copied the hwmon mailing list for the introduction of an IIO</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> namespace and its use in a couple of hwmon drivers in one of the patches.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> My personal opinion is that this should not be part of this series but a</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> series of its own. That is just my personal opinion, though.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I understand. I can split it out.</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Thanks,</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">-- </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Romain Gantois, Bootlin</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">https://bootlin.com</p>
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