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| author | Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@st.com> | 2018-01-10 13:13:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2018-01-10 13:30:06 +0300 |
| commit | 5b178943d64b85d78350ea9c86344c376d7bfe74 (patch) | |
| tree | 76339563d1e1c9a94410888aa531a50f0d9f4302 /Documentation | |
| parent | 48b66f8f936f369bb1a43c12aedbfeb2975baf4c (diff) | |
| download | linux-5b178943d64b85d78350ea9c86344c376d7bfe74.tar.xz | |
docs: driver-api: add iio hw consumer section
This adds a section about the Hardware consumer
API of the IIO subsystem to the driver API
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/iio/index.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8facce6a6733 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +=========== +HW consumer +=========== +An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. in this +case the buffers between IIO provider and IIO consumer are handled by hardware. +The Industrial I/O HW consumer offers a way to bond these IIO devices without +software buffer for data. The implementation can be found under +:file:`drivers/iio/buffer/hw-consumer.c` + + +* struct :c:type:`iio_hw_consumer` — Hardware consumer structure +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_alloc` — Allocate IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_free` — Free IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_enable` — Enable IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_disable` — Disable IIO hardware consumer + + +HW consumer setup +================= + +As standard IIO device the implementation is based on IIO provider/consumer. +A typical IIO HW consumer setup looks like this:: + + static struct iio_hw_consumer *hwc; + + static const struct iio_info adc_info = { + .read_raw = adc_read_raw, + }; + + static int adc_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, + struct iio_chan_spec const *chan, int *val, + int *val2, long mask) + { + ret = iio_hw_consumer_enable(hwc); + + /* Acquire data */ + + ret = iio_hw_consumer_disable(hwc); + } + + static int adc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) + { + hwc = devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc(&iio->dev); + } + +More details +============ +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/iio/hw-consumer.h +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c + :export: + diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/index.rst index e5c3922d1b6f..7fba341bd8b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/index.rst @@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ Contents: buffers triggers triggered-buffers + hw-consumer |