linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] iio: adc: add helpers for parsing ADC nodes

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Message-ID: <Z8btDzggD29xtaAo@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 14:07:43 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] iio: adc: add helpers for parsing ADC nodes

On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:25:03AM +0100, David Lechner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM Matti Vaittinen
> <mazziesaccount@...il.com> wrote:

...

> There are some different opinions on this, but on the last patch I did
> introducing a new namespace,

> the consensus

Hmm... I may not call that "the consensus"...

> seems to be that putting
> the MODULE_IMPORT_NS() in the header file was convenient so that users
> of the API don't have to remember to both include the header and add
> the import macro.

Which I am against because it will diminish the point of prevention of
the APIs abuse along with a potential to have the stale headers in
the file when the code is moved somewhere else..

So, please do not do that. We have only two abusers currently:
the PWM and SPI OFFLOAD.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko