Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] dt-bindings: iio: adc: add AD7816/AD7817/AD7818 binding

From: Denny Lin

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 12:57:59 EST


On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 7:51 AM David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Usually, we want to be moving the drivers out of staging when
> adding the DT bindings so that it all gets reviewed for correctness
> at the same time.
>
> Drivers in staging are usually there because they are doing things
> that are not actually acceptable for the final stable mainline
> version of a driver and need more work.
>

Thanks for the explanation.

I took a look at the driver and noticed it still uses the older
IIO sysfs-based interface rather than the iio_chan_spec + read_raw
model.

Would you recommend updating the driver first, or is it okay to
proceed with the binding separately?

Thanks,
Hungyu