Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] iio: dac: ad5686: refactor command/data macros

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:14:19 +0100
Rodrigo Alencar via B4 Relay <devnull+rodrigo.alencar.analog.com@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Rodrigo Alencar <rodrigo.alencar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Replace usage of bit shifting macros for FIELD_PREP(), which would not
> ignore bit masking when preparing SPI/I2C commands. This change is a code
> hardening measure to be paired with the upcoming triggered buffer support.
> For the AD5310 regmap case, 16-bit data coming from the buffer may overlap
> with command bits if the data field is unmasked.
> 
> *_REF_BIT_MSK and *_PD_MSK bit position macros are renamed (with a DATA
> prefix) so to indicate that they are relative to the DATA field.
This is a bit of an 'and' statement in here.  I guess I'll let it
go but ideal would be to have done the renames as a precursor keeping
the focus in the main patch on the FIELD_PREP() introductions.

Jonathan