RE: [RFC PATCH 0/4] iio: scan_mask rework to track enabled channels on per-channel basis

[Sa, Nuno]

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> Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] iio: scan_mask rework to track enabled channels on
> per-channel basis
> 
> 
> From my side, I'll admit that the specific use-cases for these patches
> are a bit outside of my scope of understanding.
> I did my best to re-apply them on a newer tree, and dig-up the
> information from the ADI tree [where they've been living for a while
> now].
> 
> Also, I don't have any idea if there was a prior discussion about this.
> I could not find anything on a quick search.
> 
> I'm hoping that the author would have some input on them/
> 
> Hence the RFC.
> 

Yeah, I remember I stumbled against this when looking to some of our drivers where we have (IIRC) a 16
channel ADC where 1 channel occupies 1 bit. I just gave a quick look on this and it looks good to me
(naturally it needs a deeper look :D). I just have one remark/question inline in patch 4.

- Nuno Sá