diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 86a0427f52f8..90c2e1e7aa02 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7086e6e5baae90047ecfb1416082409634868e66
+refs/heads/master: 7a7913f11ddf932e20d2bde72bec57f2f7a9b49e
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
index 897c6b01d784..3a4f6a3ab80d 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/iio/iio.h
@@ -427,6 +427,17 @@ static inline void iio_device_put(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 		put_device(&indio_dev->dev);
 };
 
+/**
+ * dev_to_iio_dev() - Get IIO device struct from a device struct
+ * @dev: The device embedded in the IIO device
+ *
+ * Note: The device must be a IIO device, otherwise the result is undefined.
+ */
+static inline struct iio_dev *dev_to_iio_dev(struct device *dev)
+{
+	return container_of(dev, struct iio_dev, dev);
+}
+
 /* Can we make this smaller? */
 #define IIO_ALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
 /**