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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/iio/consumer.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/iio/consumer.h | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/iio/consumer.h b/include/linux/iio/consumer.h index 62118dd707d7..e875bcf0478f 100644 --- a/include/linux/iio/consumer.h +++ b/include/linux/iio/consumer.h @@ -71,6 +71,21 @@ int iio_read_channel_raw(struct iio_channel *chan, int *val); /** + * iio_read_channel_processed() - read processed value from a given channel + * @chan: The channel being queried. + * @val: Value read back. + * + * Returns an error code or 0. + * + * This function will read a processed value from a channel. A processed value + * means that this value will have the correct unit and not some device internal + * representation. If the device does not support reporting a processed value + * the function will query the raw value and the channels scale and offset and + * do the appropriate transformation. + */ +int iio_read_channel_processed(struct iio_channel *chan, int *val); + +/** * iio_get_channel_type() - get the type of a channel * @channel: The channel being queried. * @type: The type of the channel. @@ -93,4 +108,27 @@ int iio_get_channel_type(struct iio_channel *channel, int iio_read_channel_scale(struct iio_channel *chan, int *val, int *val2); +/** + * iio_convert_raw_to_processed() - Converts a raw value to a processed value + * @chan: The channel being queried + * @raw: The raw IIO to convert + * @processed: The result of the conversion + * @scale: Scale factor to apply during the conversion + * + * Returns an error code or 0. + * + * This function converts a raw value to processed value for a specific channel. + * A raw value is the device internal representation of a sample and the value + * returned by iio_read_channel_raw, so the unit of that value is device + * depended. A processed value on the other hand is value has a normed unit + * according with the IIO specification. + * + * The scale factor allows to increase the precession of the returned value. For + * a scale factor of 1 the function will return the result in the normal IIO + * unit for the channel type. E.g. millivolt for voltage channels, if you want + * nanovolts instead pass 1000 as the scale factor. + */ +int iio_convert_raw_to_processed(struct iio_channel *chan, int raw, + int *processed, unsigned int scale); + #endif |