Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: iio: adc: add Texas Instruments TLA 2528

[Maxime Chevallier]

Hi David, Matti, Andy,

On 29/12/2025 14:23, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 29/12/2025 11:31, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM Matti Vaittinen
>> <mazziesaccount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 23/12/2025 20:26, David Lechner wrote:
>>>> On 12/23/25 9:55 AM, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> It looks like inputs can also be used as GPIOs, so
>>>>
>>>> gpio-controller: true
>>>> #gpio-cells:
>>>>     const: 2
>>>>
>>>> would be appropriate (it doesn't matter if the driver doesn't
>>>> implement it, we know what the correct bindings are).
>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +  "#io-channel-cells":
>>>>> +    const: 1
>>>
>>> I didn't check the data-sheet, but if the pins can be set to be GPIOs or
>>> ADC inputs, then I would require channels to be specified. It's only 8
>>> channels, so always listing channels that are present shouldn't be that
>>> big of a problem - and it should avoid one to add extra properties to
>>> denote channels used for GPIO if GPIOs need to be supported.
>>>
>>> Well, I am not insisting this, there are folks that know this stuff
>>> better than I :)
>>
>> Why would we need an extra property for that? GPIO controller has a
>> property for valid_mask, should be enough to handle this case, no?
>>
> Ah. You're right. The "valid_mask" should be perfectly usable.
> 
> I might still require the channel information to make it explicit - but 
> as I said, I leave this for others to decide :)

Thanks a lot for these suggestions, I'll add all of that in the next
iteration :)

Thanks everyone,

Maxime