Re: [PATCH] iio: todo: fix typo and refine resource management items

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Tue,  2 Jun 2026 00:38:36 +0530
Sanjay Chitroda <sanjayembeddedse@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Sanjay Chitroda <sanjayembeddedse@gmail.com>
> 
> Fix a typo in the staging documentation path and adjust formatting of
> existing entries for readability.
> 
> Add TODO items to track conversion of selected drivers to device managed
> resource APIs and evaluate usage of cleanup.h helpers for simplifying
> resource management.
> 
> These updates aim to better reflect ongoing cleanup efforts within the
> IIO subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sanjay Chitroda <sanjayembeddedse@gmail.com>

Hmm. Sometimes I regret having this TODO when too many patches are coming in.
I guess it's still a useful document as otherwise we would just get the question
a lot.

> ---
>  drivers/iio/TODO | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/TODO b/drivers/iio/TODO
> index 2ace27d1ac62..17093cc6c61b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/TODO
> +++ b/drivers/iio/TODO
> @@ -5,12 +5,16 @@ Documentation
>  tree
>    - Yaml conversions for abandoned drivers
>    - ABI Documentation
> -  - Audit driviers/iio/staging/Documentation
> +  - Audit drivers/staging/iio/Documentation
>  
> -- Converting drivers from device tree centric to more generic
> -property handlers.
> +- Converting drivers from device tree centric to more generic property handlers.
Drop the 'more' 
>  
>  - Refactor old platform_data constructs from drivers and convert it
>  to state struct and using property handlers and readers.
>  
> +- Convert selected IIO drivers to use fully device managed resource APIs.

Mostly I'm fine with this one, but I hope adding it to the todo list doesn't
get lots of new folk taking this on. It is something that requires a non
trivial understanding of the driver in some cases!

> +
> +- Evaluate and adopt cleanup.h helpers (guard, __free) in drivers where
> +  manual resource management is still used.
Can we rephrase,

 - Evaluate and possibly adopt cleanup.h helpers (guard, __free) in drivers
   where manual resource management is still used and there is a significant
   improvement to the code flow and complexity to be had.

> +
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