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Message-ID: <52f47b43-e735-0be9-ebac-e6e099a2dd09@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 18:40:20 -0500
From: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
ivan.orlov0322@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add struct ad9832_platform_data to the include/linux/iio
On 7/8/23 09:45, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:10:29 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 04:15:53PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
>>> Add struct ad9832_platform_data to the include/linux/iio
>>> for maintaining code organization and clarity.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c | 3 +--
>>> drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.h | 34 --------------------------
>>> include/linux/iio/frequency/ad9832.h | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> No, not yet, sorry. Staging drivers should be self-contained, why does
>> this .c file need a .h file at all anyway? It should all just be in the
>> .c file, can you do that instead?
> This is an aged driver so still has definitions that would be included
> from board files, hence the header.
>
> So Madhumitha, if you are looking at getting this driver out of staging
> (which would be great!) then first job is convert it from platform data
> to device tree (or better yet generic firmware bindings using linux/property.h)
Sure, I will take a look and work on convert it from platform data to
generic
firmware bindings.
> A side effect of that is the header would go away as equivalent job would be
> done by the dt-bindings yaml file.
>
> Jonathan
>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
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