diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c
index aa42ba759fa1..60f394da4640 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ struct ad7768_state {
 	struct gpio_desc *gpio_sync_in;
 	const char *labels[ARRAY_SIZE(ad7768_channels)];
 	/*
-	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the
+	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) may require the
 	 * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines.
 	 */
 	union {
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ struct ad7768_state {
 		} scan;
 		__be32 d32;
 		u8 d8[2];
-	} data ____cacheline_aligned;
+	} data __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
 };
 
 static int ad7768_spi_reg_read(struct ad7768_state *st, unsigned int addr,