Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: add driver for Texas Instruments TLA2528 adc

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 09:13:51 +0200
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31/12/2025 19:12, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:20:23 +0200
> > Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 23/12/2025 17:55, Maxime Chevallier wrote:  
> >>> This adds a new driver for the TI TLA2528 ADC chip. It ha 8 12-bit
> >>> channels, that can also be configured as 16-bit averaging channels.
> >>>
> >>> Add a very simple driver for it, allowing reading raw values for each
> >>> channel.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>    MAINTAINERS                  |   7 ++
> >>>    drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig      |  10 ++
> >>>    drivers/iio/adc/Makefile     |   1 +
> >>>    drivers/iio/adc/ti-tla2528.c | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>    4 files changed, 227 insertions(+)
> >>>    create mode 100644 drivers/iio/adc/ti-tla2528.c
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >>> index dc731d37c8fe..5c382ae216c7 100644
> >>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >>> @@ -25866,6 +25866,13 @@ F:	include/dt-bindings/soc/ti,sci_pm_domain.h
> >>>    F:	include/linux/soc/ti/ti_sci_inta_msi.h
> >>>    F:	include/linux/soc/ti/ti_sci_protocol.h
> >>>    
> >>> +TEXAS INSTRUMENTS' TLA2528 ADC DRIVER
> >>> +M:	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
> >>> +L:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> >>> +S:	Supported
> >>> +F:	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/ti,tla2528.yaml
> >>> +F:	drivers/iio/adc/ti-tla2528.c
> >>> +
> >>>    TEXAS INSTRUMENTS' TMP117 TEMPERATURE SENSOR DRIVER
> >>>    M:	Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
> >>>    L:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig b/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig
> >>> index 58da8255525e..67376de410bf 100644  
> >>
> >> Hmm. Would it ease merging if MAINTAINERS changes were in their own patch?  
> > 
> > Not particularly.  Though I personally slightly prefer the logic
> > of bringing the entry in with the first file, then adding additional files
> > in later patches.
> > 
> > Given it is huge and in alphabetical order, conflicts in MAINTAINERS are
> > fairly rare and trivial to resolve.
> >   
> 
> Thanks for this clarification :)
> 
> I don't know where I had picked up this idea, but I thought that the 
> volume of changes in MAINTAINERs was somewhat annoying source of 
> conflicts. I sit and type corrected :)

Low chance for any given patch, but high chance overall as so many patches
touch it!  Resolving it isn't really any easier if it is inside a bigger
patch or not.

Jonathan

> 
> 
> Yours,
> 	-- Matti
> 
> ---
> Matti Vaittinen
> Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
> Oulu Finland
> 
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