Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] iio: adc: ad7380: new driver for AD7380 ADCs

From: David Lechner
Date: Sun Feb 18 2024 - 16:57:21 EST


On 2/17/24 10:20 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:34:01 -0600
> David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> This adds a new driver for the AD7380 family ADCs.
>>>
>>> The driver currently implements basic support for the AD7380, AD7381,
>>> AD7383, and AD7384 2-channel differential ADCs. Support for additional
>>> single-ended and 4-channel chips that use the same register map as well
>>> as additional features of the chip will be added in future patches.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> We have some additional features to add to this driver we are working
>> on that look like they might affect userspace. Can we hold off on
>> sending this one to Greg for 6.9? That way we will have more time to
>> sort that out without having to worry about breaking userspace.
>
> Ok. Hopefully rebasing my tree won't cause others too many downstream
> problems. Generally I only do this if there is an invalid tag or similar
> that must be fixed. There is normally a window of a weekish
> between me picking it up and pushing out for linux-next to pick up and
> hopefully issues like this get spotted in that window.
> Ah well, sometimes things don't work out how we would like them to.
>
> Dropped the 3 patches (original driver and a fix) from the togreg branch.
>

Thanks. I will keep the the one week window in mind if we have similar cases in the future.