Re: GSoC IIO project: Siddharth Menon

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:23:35 +0530
Siddharth Menon <simeddon@gmail.com> wrote:

> subject: Permission to work on dt bindings for staging drivers
> 
> I am interested in applying for GSoC under the IIO driver project.
> 
> I have a couple of patches that have been merged into the kernel,
> and am now exploring DT bindings.
> 
> Currently, I am working on Coding Task 1 (sending cleanup patches).
> While running checkpatch.pl, I noticed warnings about undocumented
> DT-compatible strings.
> Would creating the appropriate binding count as a cleanup patch or were
> they left undocumented intentionally because they are staging drivers?

There has been a long term reluctance to pin down DT bindings for
drivers that are known to not be in a suitable state for long term
maintenance etc.  So I'd skip adding bindings for these. Also
they tend to be far from what I'd call cleanup patches!

Some of those staging/iio drivers will probably get dropped at somepoint
so before doing any more major work on them, please send an email to
check they are still of interest!

Your email motivated me to take a quick look.
The accel/adis16240 is now marked obsolete at 
https://www.analog.com/en/products/adis16240.html
I'll send out a patch shortly to suggest we drop that one as unlikely
anyone will expend work on a part that is getting hard to get.

The other drivers all cover at least 1 supported part.

Jonathan

> 
> Regards,
> Siddharth Menon
>