Re: [PATCH V7 0/5] Add support for QCOM SPMI PMIC5 Gen3 ADC

[Jishnu Prakash]

Hi Krzysztof,

On 8/29/2025 12:41 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 02:06:52PM +0530, Jishnu Prakash wrote:
>> PMIC5 Gen3 has a similar ADC architecture to that on PMIC5 Gen2,
>> with all SW communication to ADC going through PMK8550 which
>> communicates with other PMICs through PBS. The major difference is
>> that the register interface used here is that of an SDAM present on
>> PMK8550, rather than a dedicated ADC peripheral. There may be more than one
>> SDAM used for ADC5 Gen3. Each ADC SDAM has eight channels, each of which may
>> be used for either immediate reads (same functionality as previous PMIC5 and
>> PMIC5 Gen2 ADC peripherals) or recurring measurements (same as PMIC5 and PMIC5
>> Gen2 ADC_TM functionality). In this case, we have VADC and ADC_TM functionality
>> combined into the same driver.
>>
>> Patch 1 is a cleanup, to move the QCOM ADC dt-bindings files from
>> dt-bindings/iio to dt-bindings/iio/adc folder, as they are
>> specifically for ADC devices. It also fixes all compilation errors
>> with this change in driver and devicetree files and similar errors
>> in documentation for dtbinding check.
>>
>> Patch 2 splits out the common ADC channel properties used on older
>> VADC devices, which would also be reused on ADC5 Gen3.
>>
>> Patch 3 adds bindings for ADC5 Gen3 peripheral.
>>
>> Patch 4 adds the main driver for ADC5 Gen3.
>>
>> Patch 5 adds the auxiliary thermal driver which supports the ADC_TM
>> functionality of ADC5 Gen3.
>>
>> Changes since v6:
>> - Updated auxiliary device cleanup handling to fix memory freeing issues
>> - Updated copyright license in newly added files
> 
> Eveyrthing is an update.... What did you change in copyright and
> license? And why?

I replaced the 2025 copyright with the new yearless one in newly added files,
following our new internal guidelines. There was no change in the license, I'll
fix this line.

> 
>> - Addressed some reviewer comments in documentation and driver patches.
> 
> What changed specifically?

I'll update the changelog here and in other patches to
list all the changes clearly when pushing the next patch series.

Thanks,
Jishnu

> 
>> - Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250509110959.3384306-1-jishnu.prakash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>