Merge tag 'v7.0-rc7' into char-misc-next

We need the char/misc/iio/comedi fixes in here as well for testing

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
index a9ecff191bd9..2c91b7659ce9 100644
--- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h
+++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
@@ -931,6 +931,18 @@ static inline void *iio_device_get_drvdata(const struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 #define IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS(type, name, count) \
 	__IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS(type, name, count) __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN)
 
+/**
+ * IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION() - Declare a quaternion element
+ * @type: element type of the individual vectors
+ * @name: identifier name
+ *
+ * Quaternions are a vector composed of 4 elements (W, X, Y, Z). Use this macro
+ * to declare a quaternion element in a struct to ensure proper alignment in
+ * an IIO buffer.
+ */
+#define IIO_DECLARE_QUATERNION(type, name) \
+	type name[4] __aligned(sizeof(type) * 4)
+
 struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(struct device *parent, int sizeof_priv);
 
 /* The information at the returned address is guaranteed to be cacheline aligned */