Since there are no more direct accesses to the indio_dev->scan_timestamp value, it can be marked as __private and use the macro ACCESS_PRIVATE() in order to access it. Like this, static checkers will be able to inform in case someone tries to either write to the value, or read its value directly. Signed-off-by: Vasileios Amoiridis <vassilisamir@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 2 +- include/linux/iio/iio.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c index 8104696cd475..c332741f3cf4 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ static int iio_enable_buffers(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, int ret; indio_dev->active_scan_mask = config->scan_mask; - indio_dev->scan_timestamp = config->scan_timestamp; + ACCESS_PRIVATE(indio_dev, scan_timestamp) = config->scan_timestamp; indio_dev->scan_bytes = config->scan_bytes; iio_dev_opaque->currentmode = config->mode; diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h index 5661794d1127..669b4ef1280d 100644 --- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h +++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ struct iio_dev { const unsigned long *available_scan_masks; unsigned int __private masklength; const unsigned long *active_scan_mask; - bool scan_timestamp; + bool __private scan_timestamp; struct iio_trigger *trig; struct iio_poll_func *pollfunc; struct iio_poll_func *pollfunc_event; @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ int iio_active_scan_mask_index(struct iio_dev *indio_dev); */ static inline bool iio_is_soft_ts_enabled(const struct iio_dev *indio_dev) { - return indio_dev->scan_timestamp; + return ACCESS_PRIVATE(indio_dev, scan_timestamp); } ssize_t iio_format_value(char *buf, unsigned int type, int size, int *vals); -- 2.43.0