[PATCH v3 0/4] iio: adc: ad9467: Support alternative backends

Tomas Melin
2026-01-14T10:46:29Z

To facilitate backends with different set of features, add support
for defining capabilites provided by the backend. These capabilites
typically extend beyond a single operation and are therefore not
directly linked to if a single function call is implemented or not.
Furthermore, the capabilites determine if a certain set of operations
should be attempted, or skipped by the frontend. This way
the frontend driver can work with a minimalistic set of features and
still have the device in fully functional state.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Melin <tomas.melin@vaisala.com>
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Changes in v3:
- Reduce set of capabilities to only include calibration. The other
ones propsed in V2 can be seen as subset of calibration, or single
operation failing with opnotsupported
- Rename backends checking function
- Relocate caps field inside backend struct (pahole)
- Add kernel-docs
- Add capabilites for exisiting backend variants
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260113-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-v2-0-0a27e7e72f41@vaisala.com

Changes in v2:
- Added industrialio-backend capabilities feature
- Removed acceptance for fully optional backend, instead require atleast
minimalistic backend to exist
- Switched to FIELD_MODIFY()
- Fixed kernel test robot reported failure for missing bitfield.h
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251216-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-v1-0-83e61531ef4d@vaisala.com

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Tomas Melin (4):
iio: adc: ad9467: include two's complement in default mode
iio: industrialio-backend: support backend capabilities
iio: adc: adi-axi-adc: define supported iio-backend capabilities
iio: adc: ad9467: check for backend capabilities

drivers/iio/adc/ad9467.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
drivers/iio/adc/adi-axi-adc.c | 2 ++
drivers/iio/industrialio-backend.c | 17 +++++++++++++++
include/linux/iio/backend.h | 17 +++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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base-commit: a7b10f0963c651a6406d958a5f64b9c5594f84da
change-id: 20251215-b4-ad9467-optional-backend-23f1099ee4d7

Best regards,
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Tomas Melin <tomas.melin@vaisala.com>