Re: [PATCH 1/1] dt-bindings: iio: adc: max1238: Add #io-channel-cells property

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:12:10 +0100
Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Frank Li wrote:
> > Add #io-channel-cells property because it is multi-channel ADC.  
> 
> As far as I understand it, that's not a correct statement. A single
> channel ADC can have the property, but it would be set to 0 just as a
> single clock provider has #clock-cells of 0.
> 
> I did check the devices and they do all appear to be multichannel (not
> just the 1238) so the change you're making here looks correct, unless
> some of them would actually require 2 cells for some reason - but you
> should really state that in your commit message when there's about 30
> compatibles so that I don't have to check them.
> 
> With an accurate commit message,
> Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Maybe Jonathan is willing to do that since it's just adding "of 1" to
> the first sentence.
> 
I changed it to say 'with a constant value of 1' to leave the gap
for other values on other devices that you are pointing out.

Applied, thanks.
> > 
> > Fix below CHECK_DTBS warnings:
> >   arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/ls/ls1021a-iot.dtb: adc@35 (maxim,max1239): '#io-channel-cells' does not match any of the regexes: '^pinctrl-[0-9]+$'
> > 	from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml#
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml
> > index 60d7b34e3286f..ae3c89393f1a3 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/maxim,max1238.yaml
> > @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ properties:
> >    reg:
> >      maxItems: 1
> >  
> > +  "#io-channel-cells":
> > +    const: 1
> > +
> >    vcc-supply: true
> >    vref-supply:
> >      description: Optional external reference.  If not supplied, internal
> > -- 
> > 2.34.1
> >