On 2016-11-07 12:37, Daniel Baluta wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> A large number of attributes can only take a limited range of values. >> Currently in IIO this is handled by directly registering additional >> *_available attributes thus providing this information to userspace. >> >> It is desirable to provide this information via the core for much the same >> reason this was done for the actual channel information attributes in the >> first place. If it isn't there, then it can only really be accessed from >> userspace. Other in kernel IIO consumers have no access to what valid >> parameters are. >> >> Two forms are currently supported: >> * list of values in one particular IIO_VAL_* format. >> e.g. 1.300000 1.500000 1.730000 >> * range specification with a step size: >> e.g. [1.000000 0.500000 2.500000] >> equivalent to 1.000000 1.5000000 2.000000 2.500000 > > Is there any driver using this format? :) Yes, soon. Hopefully. See patch 3/8 iio: mcp4531: provide range of available raw values https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9391283/ >> >> An addition set of masks are used to allow different sharing rules for the >> *_available attributes generated. >> >> This allows for example: >> >> in_accel_x_offset >> in_accel_y_offset >> in_accel_offset_available. >> >> We could have gone with having a specification for each and every >> info_mask element but that would have meant changing the existing userspace >> ABI. This approach does not. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> >> [forward ported, added some docs and fixed buffer overflows /peda] >> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The patch looks good to me at a first glance. Thanks, may I add your acked-by if/when I respin? Cheers, Peter -- 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
