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| author | Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> | 2012-09-14 16:21:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> | 2012-09-15 10:12:22 +0100 |
| commit | 7985e7c1003bc5cdfa20755f8cfdada946ed8e18 (patch) | |
| tree | 94adb3cf91ec3406361c2bc9d0c66485e1bf2436 /include | |
| parent | ca7d1b32d2a0d4c62533b9401cf9ce4d14d183f7 (diff) | |
iio: Introduce a new fractional value type
Currently IIO uses a decimal fixed point representations for real type numbers.
This patch introduces a new representation for rational type numbers. The number
will be expressed by specifying a numerator and denominator. For converting a
raw value to a processed value multiply it by the numerator and divide it by the
denominator.
The reasoning for introducing this new type is that for a lot of devices the
scale can be represented easily by a fractional number, but it is not possible
to represent it as fixed point number without rounding. E.g. for a simple DAC
the scale is often the reference voltage divided by the number of possible
values (Usually 2**n_bits - 1). Each driver currently implements the conversion
of this fraction to a fixed point number on its own.
Also when it comes to the in-kernel interface this allows to directly use the
fractional factors to convert a raw value to a processed value. This should on
one hand require less instructions and on the other hand increase the
precision.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/iio/types.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/iio/types.h b/include/linux/iio/types.h index 44e397705d7f..5c647ecfd5ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/iio/types.h +++ b/include/linux/iio/types.h @@ -57,5 +57,6 @@ enum iio_modifier { #define IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO 2 #define IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_NANO 3 #define IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO_DB 4 +#define IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL 10 #endif /* _IIO_TYPES_H_ */ |