[PATCH 0/8] iio: timestamp declaration cleanup

[David Lechner]

On 5/18/26 2:14 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 10:09:48AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> 20260518071349.469748-1-andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com

Nice, thanks. I agree this will be the cleanest solution.

> 
>>> 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.
>