On 08/27/10 16:09, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > ... >>> >>> Agreed. These ought to be in there and will be needed >>> >>>> To be compatible with future extensions we could have: >>>> |- /sys/bus/iio/ii0/buffer0/scan_elements/ >>>> |- accel_x:en (0 or 1) >>>> |- accel_x:type (i.e. s14/16, see *) >>>> |- accel_x:index >>>> >>> >>>> * s14/16 means signed 14 bits, stored in 16 bits, right aligned. If >>>> it's left aligned we can just modify the scale attribute and give the >>>> 16 bit interpretation in <channel>:raw. >>> That is quite a neat way of doing it though I'm not sure 'type' is the >>> ideal name. My immediate thought is that type would be 'acceleration'! >>> We definitely want this on list. We'd also want to drop the precision >>> attribute as that will just confuse things. >> >> I'm open for any other name. > Lets see if anyone else has a suggestion... actually, having thought about it a bit more (and as no one else chipped in) I'm happy to go with type as you suggested. It's a nice clear interface. It should be obvious to anyone looking at the value that it is about the size of the element (even if they don't immediately follow the /16 bit). Perhaps we should run this past lkml to see if anyone has a suggestion? Manuel, it's your idea so you get to write the email ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
