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

From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] iio: inkern: Use namespaced exports
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 02:07:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705020758.011f4f3c@jic23-huawei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260603182052.7d23c067@jic23-huawei>

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 18:20:52 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:24:21 -0700
> Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 09:25:56AM +0100, Romain Gantois 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@collabora.com> # for power-supply
> > > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@bootlin.com>    
> > 
> > For input:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Thanks.
> >   
> 
> For anyone wondering what happened to this... I forgot to apply this at the
> beginning of the cycle and by the time I remembered we had too much queued up
> so it would have been messy to do an immutable branch.   Anyhow, I plan to
> sort this at start of next cycle.

Immutable branch created as: iio-inkern-namespace-ib based on v7.2-rc1
on https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git

I've merged it into the testing branch of iio.git so if anyone else does
need to merge this to avoid conflicts, perhaps wait a day or two until
I've pushed it out as togreg for linux-next to pick up.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
> Jonathan