Manuel Stahl wrote: > 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. Changing the name is easy. Before we can discuss merging things, I think we need to understand the long term license. I think that we were thinking that eventually the library would be under a pretty permissive license, which might be more embedded friendly than the GPL. You can debate the top level tools/utils examples that use the library - but I would suspect that lots of folks might want to grab snippets from those (to grok how the library works)?? -Robin -- 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
