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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Nuno Sa via B4 Relay <devnull+nuno.sa.analog.com@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] iio: add the IIO backend framework
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On Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:14:13 +0100
Nuno Sa via B4 Relay <devnull+nuno.sa.analog.com@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@analog.com>
> 
> This is a Framework to handle complex IIO aggregate devices.
> 
> The typical architecture is to have one device as the frontend device which
> can be "linked" against one or multiple backend devices. All the IIO and
> userspace interface is expected to be registers/managed by the frontend
> device which will callback into the backends when needed (to get/set
> some configuration that it does not directly control).
> 
> The basic framework interface is pretty simple:
>  - Backends should register themselves with @devm_iio_backend_register()
>  - Frontend devices should get backends with @devm_iio_backend_get()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@analog.com>
Name space all the Symbol Exports. Otherwise, no particular comments from me.
I will take a deeper look at all the details at somepoint, but so far
it looks basically fine to me.

Jonathan