Re: [PATCH 0/2] iio: orientation: hid-sensor-rotation: fix quaternion alignment

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 03:00:19PM -0600, David Lechner wrote:
> The main point of this series is to fix a regression reported in
> hid-sensor-rotation where the alignment of the quaternion field in the
> data was inadvertently changed from 16 bytes to 8 bytes. This is an
> unusually case (one of only 2 in the kernel) where the .repeat field of
> struct iio_scan_type is used and we have such a requirement. (The other
> case uses u16 instead of u32, so it wasn't affected.)
> 
> To make the reason for the alignment more explicit to future readers,
> we introduce a new macro, IIO_DECLARE_REPEATED_ELEMENT, to declare the
> array with proper allignment. This is meant to follow the pattern of
> the similar IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS() macro.

In both cases it's quaternion, maybe be more explicit and define
IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION() ?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko