[PATCH 0/8] iio: timestamp declaration cleanup

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 01:17:17PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> While looking around the code, I noticed that there are a lot of places
> were we are manually filling all of the fields of an IIO timestamp.
> 
> This is error-prone (as seen in the first patch) and more verbose than
> it needs to be.
> 
> I went with the approach of using the existing IIO_CHAN_SOFT_TIMESTAMP()
> macro for doing a struct assignment. This does require a cast, which

No, it's *not* a cast. It's a compound literal. And instead of doing this in
every driver, add it to the macro (in a separate patch). Oh, let me just cook
it for you (I added that to several cases in the past).

> makes it a bit more verbose, but we were already doing that in to
> drivers, so I went with it anyway.

> If we want to consider alternatives, we could make a iio helper function
> or macro like the first and second patches did.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko