Re: [PATCH v2] iio: frequency: ad9832: devicetree probing support

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:58:46 -0500
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 09:58:11PM +0530, Siddharth Menon wrote:
> > Introduce struct for device match of_device_id to avoid relying on fallback
> > mechanisms, which could lead to false matches against other AD9832 variants
> > in the future.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Siddharth Menon <simeddon@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  v1->v2:
> >  - updated commit message to be more informative
> >  - minor changes to code formatting
> >  drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c b/drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c
> > index 140ee4f9c137..7d4f655f6df1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c
> > @@ -431,6 +431,13 @@ static int ad9832_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
> >  	return devm_iio_device_register(&spi->dev, indio_dev);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static const struct of_device_id ad9832_of_match[] = {
> > +	{ .compatible = "adi,ad9832" },
> > +	{ .compatible = "adi,ad9835" },  
> 
> Is there some reason we can't add a binding for this?
> 
It might take some thought on how to actually describe some aspects
of this device that aren't yet supported by the driver,
but in principle we certainly should.  For drivers that have been
in staging a long time I'm a little reluctant to do merge a binding
until we are fairly sure the driver is going to move out of staging though.

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