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2 Industrial IIO configfs support
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8 Configfs is a filesystem-based manager of kernel objects. IIO uses some
9 objects that could be easily configured using configfs (e.g.: devices,
12 See Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt for more information
13 about how configfs works.
18 In order to use configfs support in IIO we need to select it at compile
19 time via CONFIG_IIO_CONFIGFS config option.
21 Then, mount the configfs filesystem (usually under /config directory)::
24 $ mount -t configfs none /config
26 At this point, all default IIO groups will be created and can be accessed
27 under /config/iio. Next chapters will describe available IIO configuration
33 One of the IIO default configfs groups is the "triggers" group. It is
34 automagically accessible when the configfs is mounted and can be found
35 under /config/iio/triggers.
37 IIO software triggers implementation offers support for creating multiple
38 trigger types. A new trigger type is usually implemented as a separate
39 kernel module following the interface in include/linux/iio/sw_trigger.h::
42 * drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sample.c
43 * sample kernel module implementing a new trigger type
45 #include <linux/iio/sw_trigger.h>
48 static struct iio_sw_trigger *iio_trig_sample_probe(const char *name)
51 * This allocates and registers an IIO trigger plus other
52 * trigger type specific initialization.
56 static int iio_trig_hrtimer_remove(struct iio_sw_trigger *swt)
59 * This undoes the actions in iio_trig_sample_probe
63 static const struct iio_sw_trigger_ops iio_trig_sample_ops = {
64 .probe = iio_trig_sample_probe,
65 .remove = iio_trig_sample_remove,
68 static struct iio_sw_trigger_type iio_trig_sample = {
69 .name = "trig-sample",
71 .ops = &iio_trig_sample_ops,
74 module_iio_sw_trigger_driver(iio_trig_sample);
76 Each trigger type has its own directory under /config/iio/triggers. Loading
77 iio-trig-sample module will create 'trig-sample' trigger type directory
78 /config/iio/triggers/trig-sample.
80 We support the following interrupt sources (trigger types):
82 * hrtimer, uses high resolution timers as interrupt source
84 3.1 Hrtimer triggers creation and destruction
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87 Loading iio-trig-hrtimer module will register hrtimer trigger types allowing
88 users to create hrtimer triggers under /config/iio/triggers/hrtimer.
92 $ mkdir /config/iio/triggers/hrtimer/instance1
93 $ rmdir /config/iio/triggers/hrtimer/instance1
95 Each trigger can have one or more attributes specific to the trigger type.
97 3.2 "hrtimer" trigger types attributes
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100 "hrtimer" trigger type doesn't have any configurable attribute from /config dir.
101 It does introduce the sampling_frequency attribute to trigger directory.