[PATCH v2 2/2] iio: inkern: Use namespaced exports

Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 15:26:01 PDT 2026


On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 12:25:29PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:02:22 +0000
> Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:25:56 +0100
> > Romain Gantois <romain.gantois at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Use namespaced exports for IIO consumer API functions.
> > > 
> > > This will make it easier to manage the IIO export surface. Consumer drivers
> > > will only be provided access to a specific set of functions, thereby
> > > restricting usage of internal IIO functions by other parts of the kernel.
> > > 
> > > This change cannot be split into several parts without breaking
> > > bisectability, thus all of the affected drivers are modified at once.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel at collabora.com> # for power-supply
> > > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois at bootlin.com>  
> > Ideally looking for a couple more Acks.
> > 
> > If any of the maintainers of other trees who haven't already replied
> > have time for a quick glance that would be great.  I'll spin an
> > immutable branch but I'm not really expecting any non trivial
> > conflicts unless there is a new user in flight that I've forgotten
> > about.
> 
> At this stage, given I'm still waiting on replies from a couple of
> subsystem maintainers, I'm thinking we'll do this next cycle and I'll
> provide an immutable branch based on rc1 for anyone to grab if they
> run into merge conflicts in linux-next.

Sorry, I just acked the input bits in the patch, but in general I feel
these kind of mechanical changes in consumers do not require an ack and
you can just go an apply such changes.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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