Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: ad9467: make iio backend optional

[Tomas Melin]

Hi,

On 18/12/2025 15:41, Nuno Sá wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 13:44 +0200, Tomas Melin wrote:
>> [resend, I think there was some problem with my first reply]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17/12/2025 11:26, Nuno Sá wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2025-12-16 at 15:39 +0000, Tomas Melin wrote:
> 
> The above is indeed cumbersome. I guess dummy is not what we would need but something
> like a fixed-backend that would implement all the ops in a dummy way. But that does not
> make much sense and doesn't really scale.
> 
> I think my main complain is also that then we should add a devm_backend_get_optional() to make
> the intent clear but unfortunately this driver is not the best candidate for that.
> 
> Anyways, I still don't love the idea of just ignoring it (given that some HW is indeed present)
> but yeah. Not going to nack it either.

Good that you still see the optional backend as feasible. I will tune
the implementation in next version according to discussion in our other
thread and other possible feeback that comes up. I'm confident we can
find a solution that will work out nicely.

Thanks,
Tomas


> 
> - Nuno Sá
>