[PATCH v3 6/9] iio: adc: rzg2l_adc: Use adc-helpers
Jonathan Cameron
jic23 at kernel.org
Sun Feb 23 08:30:18 PST 2025
On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:31:38 +0200
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount at gmail.com> wrote:
> The new devm_iio_adc_device_alloc_chaninfo() -helper is intended to help
> drivers avoid open-coding the for_each_node -loop for getting the
> channel IDs. The helper provides standard way to detect the ADC channel
> nodes (by the node name), and a standard way to convert the "reg",
> "diff-channels", "single-channel" and the "common-mode-channel" to
> channel identification numbers used in the struct iio_chan_spec.
> Furthermore, the helper checks the ID is in range of 0 ... num-channels.
>
> The original driver treated all found child nodes as channel nodes. The
> new helper requires channel nodes to be named channel[@N]. This should
> help avoid problems with devices which may contain also other but ADC
> child nodes. Quick grep from arch/* with the rzg2l_adc's compatible
> string didn't reveal any in-tree .dts with channel nodes named
> othervice. Also, same grep shows all the .dts seem to have channel IDs
> between 0..num of channels.
>
> Use the new helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount at gmail.com>
I should have read on. Definitely more convincing with these usecases.
however drag them to start of series. Better to add infrastructure
so some use and then on to your new driver.
Looks good to me.
Jonathan
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