Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] iio: dac: ds4424: use device match data for chip info

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:20:13 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 03:00:38PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > Refactor the driver to use device match data instead of checking ID enums
> > in a switch statement.
> > 
> > Define a `ds4424_chip_info` structure to hold variant-specific attributes
> > (currently just the channel count) and attach it directly to the I2C and
> > OF device ID tables.
> > 
> > This simplifies the probe function and makes it easier to add support for
> > new variants like DS4402/DS4404.  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
> with a hope that we get rid an I²C ID requirement at some point.
> 
> ...
> 
> > +struct ds4424_chip_info {
> > +	u8 num_channels;  
> 
> If you wish, you can provide name here that will go to ->name field.
> Linker dedups string literals, so it will be just an additional runtime
> pointer.

I'd prefer we did this now.  That avoids any future issue where we get
subtle mismatches between DT compatibles listed and the i2c_device_id
names.

We've been bitten by bugs around this before, hence tend to push names
into the chip_info structure instead of using id->name.  IIRC correctly
the fun starts when we have a fallback compatible.

Jonathan


> 
> > +};  
>