Re: [PATCH] Add struct ad9832_platform_data to the include/linux/iio

[Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>]

On 7/8/23 09:45, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:10:29 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 04:15:53PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
>>> Add struct ad9832_platform_data to the include/linux/iio
>>> for maintaining code organization and clarity.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c |  3 +--
>>>   drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.h | 34 --------------------------
>>>   include/linux/iio/frequency/ad9832.h   | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> No, not yet, sorry.  Staging drivers should be self-contained, why does
>> this .c file need a .h file at all anyway?  It should all just be in the
>> .c file, can you do that instead?
> This is an aged driver so still has definitions that would be included
> from board files, hence the header.
>
> So Madhumitha, if you are looking at getting this driver out of staging
> (which would be great!) then first job is convert it from platform data
> to device tree (or better yet generic firmware bindings using linux/property.h)

Sure, I will take a look and work on convert it from platform data to 
generic

firmware bindings.

> A side effect of that is the header would go away as equivalent job would be
> done by the dt-bindings yaml file.
>
> Jonathan
>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h