Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add IIO backend support for AD7779

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:37:38 +0100
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:24:26 -0500
> David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 8/25/25 5:13 PM, Ioana Risteiu wrote:  
> > >   - Add axi_adc_num_lanes_set in the adi_axi_adc_ops structure to support
> > >   setting number of lanes used by AXI ADC.
> > >   - Add the generic io-backends property to the AD7779 binding to enable
> > >   support for the IIO backend framework.
> > >   - Add the adi,num-lanes property to set the number of lanes used by
> > >   AD7779.
> > >   - Move the initialization specific to communication without iio-backend
> > >   into a separate setup function.
> > >   - Add a new functionality to ad7779 driver that streams data through data
> > >   output interface using IIO backend interface.    
> > 
> > It is more helpful for the cover letter to contain a high-level
> > overview of why you want this series included in the kernel. We
> > can look at the individual patches to see what they are about, so
> > repeating that here isn't especially helpful.
> > 
> > For example, I would write the cover letter for this series like this:
> > 
> > The AD7779 ADC chip has a secondary data bus for high-speed data
> > transfers. To make use of this bus, it is connected to an FPGA IP
> > core [1] which is handled using the IIO backend framework. This IP
> > core connects to the data bus lines as well as the data ready signal
> > on the ADC. This interface can use 1, 2 or 4 lanes at a time.
> > 
> > This series extends the devicetree bindings to describe these wiring
> > configuration, extends the IIO backend framework to allow setting the
> > number of lanes that are being used, and extends the ad7779 driver to
> > allow using such a backend for reading data in buffered reads.
> > 
> > [1]: https://analogdevicesinc.github.io/hdl/projects/ad777x_fmcz/index.html
> >   
> > > 
> > > Ioana Risteiu (4):
> > >   iio: adc: adi-axi-adc: add axi_adc_num_lanes_set
> > >   dt-bindings: iio: adc: add IIO backend support
> > >   iio: adc: extract setup function without backend
> > >   iio: adc: update ad7779 to use IIO backend
> > > 
> > >  .../bindings/iio/adc/adi,ad7779.yaml          |  44 +++-
> > >  drivers/iio/adc/ad7779.c                      | 192 ++++++++++++++----
> > >  drivers/iio/adc/adi-axi-adc.c                 |   1 +
> > >  3 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> > >     
> > 
> > Please include a changelog of what was changed in each revision of
> > the series along with links to the previous revisions. Tools like
> > b4 can help automate this.
> > 
> > https://docs.kernel.org/6.16/process/submitting-patches.html  
> Whilst I fully agree with this, please keep the per patch change logs
> as well as personally I find those more useful.  For those just
> changes from previous version is fine.
> 
> Anyhow, other than this process stuff the series looks good to me
> so applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing.
> 
Was missing a SELECT IIO_BACKEND.
0-day found this and I've fixed it up.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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