Re: [PATCH v9 6/8] iio: adc: Support ROHM BD79124 ADC

From: Matti Vaittinen
Date: Fri Mar 21 2025 - 09:41:45 EST


On 21/03/2025 15:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
On 21/03/2025 14:06, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 10:01:00AM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
On 20/03/2025 15:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:22:00AM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

You can get rid of all of these by simply using __le16. I do not understand why
it's not used so far. I thought that bits are mirrored, that may explain the
case, but now I do not see any problem to use __le16 directly.

This discussion is going in circles now. That was discussed in the RFC
review with Jonathan, which I did also tell to you during the v7 review:

Yes, because I think we all were confused by the bits representations,
but now I see it clearly and I do not understand why should we go the way
you suggested as it makes things a bit tangled in my opinion.

Jonathan, do you still think the two separate bytes are better than __le16?
If so, what are the pros of this solution?

I don't think Jonathan thought this is better. I'm not sure if you read the RFC conversation.

I told this is easier for me to understand. Jonathan merely told he can live with that. For this particular driver it matters because I'm expecting to be maintaining it. It's easier to maintain code which one can understand, and if subsystem maintainer can live with it, then I suppose it's the pro you are looking for.

Yours,
-- Matti