Staging: iio: add driver for MAX517/518/519

IIO Driver for Maxim MAX517, MAX518 and MAX519 DAC

Signed-off-by: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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+Kernel driver max517
+====================
+
+Supported chips:
+  * Maxim MAX517, MAX518, MAX519
+    Prefix: 'max517'
+    Datasheet: Publicly available at the Maxim website
+               http://www.maxim-ic.com/
+
+Author:
+        Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The Maxim MAX517/518/519 is an 8-bit DAC on the I2C bus. The following table
+shows the different feature sets of the variants MAX517, MAX518 and MAX519:
+
+Feature                              MAX517 MAX518 MAX519
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+One output channel                   X
+Two output channels                         X      X
+Simultaneous output updates                 X      X
+Supply voltage as reference                 X
+Separate reference input             X
+Reference input for each DAC                       X
+
+Via the iio sysfs interface, there are three attributes available: out1_raw,
+out2_raw and out12_raw. With out1_raw and out2_raw, the current output values
+(0..255) of the DACs can be written to the device. out12_raw can be used to set
+both output channel values simultaneously.
+
+With MAX517, only out1_raw is available.
+
+Via out1_scale (and where appropriate, out2_scale), the current scaling factor
+in mV can be read.
+
+When the operating system goes to a power down state, the Power Down function
+of the chip is activated, reducing the supply current to 4uA.
+
+On power-up, the device is in 0V-output state.