Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] iio: core: Simplify IIO core managed APIs

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:27:40 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 12:18 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:14:12 +0100
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> 
> ...
> 
> > This had me briefly confused as I failed to notice it was static
> > (no idea why I gave such a simple internal function kernel-doc!)
> >
> > However that brings the obvious follow up question.  Given your
> > simplification does having a helper make sense given only a single caller?
> >
> > Let's just squash it and have the two calls inline + some resulting docs
> > updates to get rid of the references to this function.  
> 
> Do you want to have this change inside the proposed patch? Or in a
> separate (pre/post) one?
Same patch would be fine I think.  It's small and coupled to the code
getting simpler because of the main change here.  Seems like a pointless
dance to refactor same code twice.

Jonathan

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