Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2014, 15:31:42 schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen: > On 03/05/2014 11:12 AM, Manuel Stahl wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > I didn't read all of your text (will do later), but would like to point out that there is alreay a project going on here: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/iioutils/ > > Well, the iioutils lib is extremely low level. It is basically just a bunch > of fprintfs and fscanfs. The libiio has a more high level abstraction build > in. The basic structure of the libiio is the iio_context, it is a (to the > user transparent) struct that is used for all operations (E.g. like > get_devices()). If an application wants to do something it first allocates a > context, there can be multiple contexts per application and each contexts > tracks is own state, so there is no globally shared state. Each context has > a backed. One backend is the local backend that performs all operations on > device the application is running on. But there is also a network backend > that connects to a sever running on a different device. This allows to run > the same application on local and remote the devices without the application > having to have any special code for supporting this. > > There is also a IIO daemon that can sit between the application and the IIO > sysfs. This daemon allows for multiple applications accessing the same > device without trampling over each others feet and also allows to run the > application without root rights. > > My hopes are that the libiio can eventually replace the iio-utils lib. That's also what I hope for. But we should try to avoid name clashes. The lib in iioutils is also called libiio. So I propose to merge the repositories somehow. Regards, Manuel -- 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
