[PATCH] iio: stm32-dfsdm: Treat flags as booleans
Olivier MOYSAN
olivier.moysan at foss.st.com
Tue Jun 23 02:43:49 PDT 2026
Hi Andy, Jonathan,
Sorry for the late answer.
On 6/21/26 16:10, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:39:16 +0300
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 04:51:50PM -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
>>> The "st,adc-alt-channel" and "st,filter0-sync" properties are
>>> documented as boolean flags. The legacy parser read them as integer
>>> cells, unlike the child-node parser which already checks only for
>>> presence.
>>>
>>> Use presence and boolean helpers so both parsers follow the binding and
>>> the property type checker no longer reports the flags.
>>
>> For the patch
>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com>
>>
>> However one interesting remark below.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> - ret = of_property_read_u32_index(indio_dev->dev.of_node,
>>> - "st,adc-alt-channel", chan_idx,
>>> - &df_ch->alt_si);
>>
>>> + df_ch->alt_si = of_property_present(indio_dev->dev.of_node,
>>
>> I believe it still has another (serious?) issue. We usually don't use indio_dev
>> for device properties. It's not a device that is described in DT.
>> It seems the only driver in IIO that does that. Note, I haven't conducted any
>> deeper research, it might be (however I'm quite in doubt) that this is correct
>> use and one device registers a few indio_dev:s.
>
> It is curious. The registration sequence in this driver is complex, but I'm not
> seeing anything that sets the fwnode for the struct iio_dev->dev before calling
> the init() callbacks that end up in this code. It is set later by iio_device_register()
> (iirc that has something to do with consumers turning up later).
>
> St folk could you take a look at this and see what we are missing
> if it does currently work?
>
> For now I'll apply this patch but might need to drop it if a fix clashes
> with it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
I confirm that the current legacy path is functional
(With the st,adc-alt-channel property fix applied)
It currently works because the driver initializes np from dev->of_node
in probe, and that value is then used in init callbacks.
I agree that this approach is not robust, as it depends on
initialization sequencing and on using an IIO object that is not the DT
owner object. I will prepare a patch to use the DT device directly as
the single source for DT properties.
I also suggest keeping a fallback path for st,adc-alt-channel so we do
not break legacy DTs that have not yet migrated to the new binding.
I prepare this also.
BRs
Olivier
>
>>
>>> + "st,adc-alt-channel");
>>
>
>
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