diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7887.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7887.c
index f64999714a4d..965bdc8aa696 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/adc/ad7887.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ad7887.c
@@ -66,13 +66,12 @@ struct ad7887_state {
 	unsigned char			tx_cmd_buf[4];
 
 	/*
-	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the
+	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) may require the
 	 * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines.
 	 * Buffer needs to be large enough to hold two 16 bit samples and a
 	 * 64 bit aligned 64 bit timestamp.
 	 */
-	unsigned char data[ALIGN(4, sizeof(s64)) + sizeof(s64)]
-		____cacheline_aligned;
+	unsigned char data[ALIGN(4, sizeof(s64)) + sizeof(s64)] __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);
 };
 
 enum ad7887_supported_device_ids {