Re: [PATCH V8 3/4] iio: adc: Add support for QCOM PMIC5 Gen3 ADC

[Jishnu Prakash]

Hi Dmitry,

On 12/6/2025 7:52 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 07:10:35PM +0530, Jishnu Prakash wrote:
>> The ADC architecture on PMIC5 Gen3 is similar to that on PMIC5 Gen2,
>> with all SW communication to ADC going through PMK8550 which
>> communicates with other PMICs through PBS.
>>

...

>>  drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig                       |  30 +
>>  drivers/iio/adc/Makefile                      |   2 +
>>  drivers/iio/adc/qcom-adc5-gen3-common.c       | 107 +++
>>  drivers/iio/adc/qcom-spmi-adc5-gen3.c         | 767 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/iio/adc/qcom-adc5-gen3-common.h | 216 +++++
>>  5 files changed, 1122 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/iio/adc/qcom-adc5-gen3-common.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/iio/adc/qcom-spmi-adc5-gen3.c
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/iio/adc/qcom-adc5-gen3-common.h
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig b/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig
>> index 58a14e6833f6..da201a9a6950 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig
>> @@ -1319,6 +1319,36 @@ config QCOM_SPMI_ADC5
>>  	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
>>  	  be called qcom-spmi-adc5.
>>  
>> +config QCOM_ADC5_GEN3_COMMON
>> +	tristate
> 
> This Kconfig (and the module) are used only by QCOM_SPMI_ADC5_GEN3. Why
> do you need to separate them? Your thermal module doesn't depend on the
> common functions.
> 

The module added with the above config has five exported functions which are
all used in the thermal module. But now it looks like I have exported functions
both in the common module (drivers/iio/adc/qcom-adc5-gen3-common.c) as well as
in the main ADC driver file (drivers/iio/adc/qcom-spmi-adc5-gen3.c), which
seems like unnecessary separation. So I can drop the separate file as you
mentioned, and keep all the exported functions in the main driver file alone,
in the next patch series.

Thanks,
Jishnu

>> +
>> +config QCOM_SPMI_ADC5_GEN3
>> +	tristate "Qualcomm Technologies Inc. SPMI PMIC5 GEN3 ADC"
>> +	depends on SPMI && THERMAL
>> +	select REGMAP_SPMI
>> +	select QCOM_VADC_COMMON
>> +	select QCOM_ADC5_GEN3_COMMON
>> +	select AUXILIARY_BUS
>> +	help
>>
>