Re: Question on shared attributes

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Hi Phil,

I think right now libiio doesn't handle shared-by-dir attributes yet,
only shared-by-type. Ideally, 'in_sampling_frequency' should appear as
a 'sampling_frequency' attribute on all input channels of your module0
device.

Regards,
Paul Cercueil

Le mardi 28 juin 2016 à 16:55 +0800, Phil Reid a écrit :
> G'day All,
> 
> Found something interesting.
> For a new iio driver I have a shared attribute on direction.
> 
> .info_mask_shared_by_dir = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ)
> 
> Which results in sysfs attribute name of:
> in_sampling_frequency
> 
> Which results in iio_info giving the following output:
> iio:device3: module0
>          7 channels found:
>                  voltage0:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 1: raw value: 0
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: index value: 0
>                          attr 4: en value: 0
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage1:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 0
>                          attr 1: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: index value: 1
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage2:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 0
>                          attr 1: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: index value: 2
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage3:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 1: raw value: 0
>                          attr 2: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                          attr 5: index value: 3
>                  voltage4:  (output)
>                  2 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 32768
>                          attr 1: scale value: 2500000.000000000
>                  voltage5:  (output)
>                  2 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 32768
>                          attr 1: scale value: 2500000.000000000
>                  sampling:  (input)
>                  1 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: frequency value: 24000
>          2 device-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: freq value: 6144000
>                          attr 1: out_en value: 0
> 
> 
> Note that the sampling_frequency attr has been converted into an
> input channel.
> 
> Modify the definition in industrialio-core.c
> 	[IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ] = "sampling_frequency",
> to
> 	[IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ] = "samplingfrequency",
> 
> Results in the following output:
> iio:device4: module0
>          6 channels found:
>                  voltage0:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 1: raw value: 0
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: index value: 0
>                          attr 4: en value: 0
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage1:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 0
>                          attr 1: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: index value: 1
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage2:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 0
>                          attr 1: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 2: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: index value: 2
>                          attr 5: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                  voltage3:  (input)
>                  6 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: hardwaregain value: 1
>                          attr 1: raw value: 0
>                          attr 2: scale value: 0.000149011
>                          attr 3: en value: 0
>                          attr 4: type value: le:s24/32>>0
>                          attr 5: index value: 3
>                  voltage4:  (output)
>                  2 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 32768
>                          attr 1: scale value: 2500000.000000000
>                  voltage5:  (output)
>                  2 channel-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: raw value: 32768
>                          attr 1: scale value: 2500000.000000000
>          3 device-specific attributes found:
>                          attr 0: freq value: 6144000
>                          attr 1: in_samplingfrequency value: 24000
>                          attr 2: out_en value: 0
> 
> Which makes more sense. So libiio is treating the name sampling as a
> channel name
> in 'in_sampling_frequency' assuming that attributes never have an
> underscore in there name.
> 
> I'm guessing the same would be the case for out attributes as well.
> 
> A quick search of the drivers in the kernel to date indicate that
> IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ is generally
> shared by type or all. shared by dir occurs with the
> iio_simple_dummy, but can't see anything with a real device.
> I'm using libiio from git://github.com/analogdevicesinc/libiio.git
> 
> So is this intended, or does libiio need to be smarter on identifying
> channels and shared attributes?
> I'm guessing we cant change the kernel interface, which would be the
> easiest fix. :/
> 
> 

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