iio: Move buffer registration to the core

Originally device and buffer registration were kept as separate operations
in IIO to allow to register two distinct sets of channels for buffered and
non-buffered operations. This has since already been further restricted and
the channel set registered for the buffer needs to be a subset of the
channel set registered for the device. Additionally the possibility to not
have a raw (or processed) attribute for a channel which was registered for
the device was added a while ago. This means it is possible to not register
any device level attributes for a channel even if it is registered for the
device. Also if a channel's scan_index is set to -1 and the channel is
registered for the buffer it is ignored.

So in summary it means it is possible to register the same channel array for
both the device and the buffer yet still end up with distinctive sets of
channels for both of them. This makes the argument for having to have to
manually register the channels for both the device and the buffer invalid.
Considering that the vast majority of all drivers want to register the same
set of channels for both the buffer and the device it makes sense to move
the buffer registration into the core to avoid some boiler-plate code in the
device driver setup path.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/iio/buffer.h b/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
index 8c8ce611949c..b0e006c3db43 100644
--- a/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/iio/buffer.h
@@ -151,22 +151,6 @@ static inline int iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 int iio_update_demux(struct iio_dev *indio_dev);
 
 /**
- * iio_buffer_register() - register the buffer with IIO core
- * @indio_dev:		device with the buffer to be registered
- * @channels:		the channel descriptions used to construct buffer
- * @num_channels:	the number of channels
- **/
-int iio_buffer_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
-			const struct iio_chan_spec *channels,
-			int num_channels);
-
-/**
- * iio_buffer_unregister() - unregister the buffer from IIO core
- * @indio_dev:		the device with the buffer to be unregistered
- **/
-void iio_buffer_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev);
-
-/**
  * iio_buffer_read_length() - attr func to get number of datums in the buffer
  **/
 ssize_t iio_buffer_read_length(struct device *dev,
@@ -223,16 +207,6 @@ static inline void iio_device_attach_buffer(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 
 #else /* CONFIG_IIO_BUFFER */
 
-static inline int iio_buffer_register(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
-					   const struct iio_chan_spec *channels,
-					   int num_channels)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static inline void iio_buffer_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
-{}
-
 static inline void iio_buffer_get(struct iio_buffer *buffer) {}
 static inline void iio_buffer_put(struct iio_buffer *buffer) {}