Re: [PATCH 05/12] iio: dac: rohm-bd79703: Do not allow writing SCALE

Matti Vaittinen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-iio,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17/08/2026 04:32, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:51:38 +0300
> Matti Vaittinen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Matti Vaittinen <[email protected]>
>>
>> The BD79703 has adds IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE in the info_mask_shared_by_type
>> so users can read the scale, which depends on the used reference
>> voltage. This, however, enables users to try writing the scale as well.
>> This isn't really supported but the bd79703_write_raw() does not check
>> the mask, and if written scale values pass the validation, the driver
>> will proceed writing the DAC value when users writes the scale.
>>
>> Prevent the unsupported scale setting and return an error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <[email protected]>
>> Fixes: af6aca656a85 ("iio: dac: Support ROHM BD79703 DAC")
> 
> Applied.
> 
> BTW convention is Fixes goes before SoB.
> I did wonder if is documented anywhere and claude sent me
> to the tip docs.
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst
> 
> IIO can follow that.
> 
> Anyhow, I'll swap them around whilst applying.

Thanks x2. (Once for pointing it out and once for fixing it!)

Yours,
	-- Matti

-- 
Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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