On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Peter Rosin <p...@axentia.se> wrote: > From: Jonathan Cameron <ji...@kernel.org> > > 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? :) > > 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 <ji...@kernel.org> > [forward ported, added some docs and fixed buffer overflows /peda] > Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <p...@axentia.se> The patch looks good to me at a first glance.
