Strawson, best thing I personally can think of, would be to use two or more pointers to the same file, and rotate between them. Closing one down while the other continues operating.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Strawson <jstra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > In an effort to make use of the eQEP modules on the beaglebone black we > > stumbled across the following encoder patch and were able to compile a > > loadable kernel module with the help of TI. Hopefully this will make its > way > > to the "thirdparty" script in the debian build farm so the community can > use > > this without recompiling > > > > https://github.com/Teknoman117/beaglebot/tree/master/encoders > > It looks pretty self-contained, i have no problem adding to the > current kernel patches.. > > > I would like to make known a bug we ran into with reading the eQEP module > > that resulted in position values not updating after exactly 1020 reads > > without closing the file pointer. If the file pointer is closed and > > re-opened for every read, the behavior is normal, but opening/closing the > > file is painfully slow. I unfortunately don't really know where to begin > > with finding and fixing this problem, but any insight would be > appreciated. > > > yikes, it still needs a little work then.. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
