Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] iio: proximity: add driver for ST VL53L1X ToF sensor

[Sirat]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:37:58 -0500
> David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 3/21/26 5:39 PM, Sirat wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 3/19/26 2:07 PM, Siratul Islam wrote:
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> > If you do a buffered read, which stop ranging when it is done,
> > then how can the direct read work after that?
> >
> > Can we just start and stop ranging momentarily for a direct
> > read?
> If the latency is high, then worth considering whether autosuspend
> and runtime pm can help. That way a burst of reads will see low
> latency after the first one but we won't be wasting power when
> no one cares.
>
> J
> >
> > Otherwise, is seems like we would want to have ranging always
> > enabled.
> >
Maybe we should go with continuous ranging then since it's the
vendor-intended behaviour.
Since there is no hardware single-shot mode, by design, I think the
driver should just behave
as the hardware intended.
> >
>
Thanks,
Sirat