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([2600:8803:e7e4:500:146:def2:caeb:cb1f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 586e51a60fabf-4160cf2572bsm64198fac.2.2026.02.25.13.27.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:27:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <120c7f33-4ca1-4d35-ac1b-b65362f1adfc@baylibre.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:27:01 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] iio: Rename 'sign' field to `format` in struct iio_scan_type To: Francesco Lavra , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Lars-Peter Clausen , Michael Hennerich , Lucas Stankus , Jonathan Cameron , =?UTF-8?Q?Nuno_S=C3=A1?= , Andy Shevchenko , Puranjay Mohan , Cosmin Tanislav , Ramona Gradinariu , Antoniu Miclaus , Petre Rodan , Dan Robertson , Benson Leung , Guenter Roeck , Jiri Kosina , Srinivas Pandruvada , Matti Vaittinen , Marcelo Schmitt , Esteban Blanc , Jorge Marques , Sergiu Cuciurean , Dragos Bogdan , Alisa-Dariana Roman , Trevor Gamblin , Renato Lui Geh , Eugen Hristev , Nicolas Ferre , Alexandre Belloni , Claudiu Beznea , Andreas Klinger , Paul Cercueil , Ramona Bolboaca , Marcus Folkesson , Kent Gustavsson , Matthias Brugger , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , Frank Li , Sascha Hauer , Pengutronix Kernel Team , Fabio Estevam , Matteo Martelli , Marius Cristea , Heiko Stuebner , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , Kurt Borja , Francesco Dolcini , =?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Paulo_Gon=C3=A7alves?= , =?UTF-8?Q?Leonard_G=C3=B6hrs?= , Oleksij Rempel , Haibo Chen , Salih Erim , Conall O'Griofa , Michal Simek , Gustavo Silva , Tomasz Duszynski , Roan van Dijk , Jyoti Bhayana , Mariel Tinaco , Nishant Malpani , Rui Miguel Silva , Linus Walleij , Lorenzo Bianconi , Alex Lanzano , Jagath Jog J , Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol , Remi Buisson , Christian Eggers , Mudit Sharma , Javier Carrasco , =?UTF-8?Q?Ond=C5=99ej_Jir?= =?UTF-8?Q?man?= , Song Qiang , Dixit Parmar , Gerald Loacker , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com References: <20260225100421.2366864-1-flavra@baylibre.com> <20260225101735.2368252-1-flavra@baylibre.com> Content-Language: en-US From: David Lechner In-Reply-To: <20260225101735.2368252-1-flavra@baylibre.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/25/26 4:17 AM, Francesco Lavra wrote: > This field is used to differentiate between signed and unsigned integers. > A following commit will extend its use to in order to add support for non- > integer scan elements; therefore, change its name from 'sign' to a more > generic 'format'. > Maybe Jonathan is OK with doing this all at once, but another alternative could be to introduce a union to allow both names at the same time, then we could make the change more gradually.