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Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:56:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.187] ([161.230.67.253]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-42fa8a09fbesm35503466f8f.0.2025.12.16.04.56.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:56:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a265681ad73bebf1ad7aeea418fb9399b8350cf.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: ad9467: make iio backend optional From: Nuno =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E1?= To: Tomas Melin , Michael Hennerich , Nuno Sa , Lars-Peter Clausen , Jonathan Cameron , David Lechner , Andy Shevchenko Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:56:57 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20251216-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-v1-2-83e61531ef4d@vaisala.com> References: <20251216-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-v1-0-83e61531ef4d@vaisala.com> <20251216-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-v1-2-83e61531ef4d@vaisala.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.58.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 2025-12-16 at 11:40 +0000, Tomas Melin wrote: > Not all users can or want to use the device with an iio-backend. > For these users, let the driver work in standalone mode, not coupled > to the backend or the services it provides. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Tomas Melin > --- Which users? The only usecases (for all the supported devices) we have requ= ire the FPGA backend. So do you have a specific usecase for a specific device? = If so, I would prefer an explicit boolean in the chip_info struture for the device(s) we k= now this can happen (unless you have a usecase for all :)). - Nuno S=C3=A1