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+========
+Triggers
+========
+
+* struct iio_trigger — industrial I/O trigger device
+* :c:func:`devm_iio_trigger_alloc` — Resource-managed iio_trigger_alloc
+* :c:func:`devm_iio_trigger_register` — Resource-managed iio_trigger_register
+ iio_trigger_unregister
+* :c:func:`iio_trigger_validate_own_device` — Check if a trigger and IIO
+ device belong to the same device
+
+In many situations it is useful for a driver to be able to capture data based
+on some external event (trigger) as opposed to periodically polling for data.
+An IIO trigger can be provided by a device driver that also has an IIO device
+based on hardware generated events (e.g. data ready or threshold exceeded) or
+provided by a separate driver from an independent interrupt source (e.g. GPIO
+line connected to some external system, timer interrupt or user space writing
+a specific file in sysfs). A trigger may initiate data capture for a number of
+sensors and also it may be completely unrelated to the sensor itself.
+
+IIO trigger sysfs interface
+===========================
+
+There are two locations in sysfs related to triggers:
+
+* :file:`/sys/bus/iio/devices/trigger{Y}/*`, this file is created once an
+ IIO trigger is registered with the IIO core and corresponds to trigger
+ with index Y.
+ Because triggers can be very different depending on type there are few
+ standard attributes that we can describe here:
+
+ * :file:`name`, trigger name that can be later used for association with a
+ device.
+ * :file:`sampling_frequency`, some timer based triggers use this attribute to
+ specify the frequency for trigger calls.
+
+* :file:`/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device{X}/trigger/*`, this directory is
+ created once the device supports a triggered buffer. We can associate a
+ trigger with our device by writing the trigger's name in the
+ :file:`current_trigger` file.
+
+IIO trigger setup
+=================
+
+Let's see a simple example of how to setup a trigger to be used by a driver::
+
+ struct iio_trigger_ops trigger_ops = {
+ .set_trigger_state = sample_trigger_state,
+ .validate_device = sample_validate_device,
+ }
+
+ struct iio_trigger *trig;
+
+ /* first, allocate memory for our trigger */
+ trig = iio_trigger_alloc(dev, "trig-%s-%d", name, idx);
+
+ /* setup trigger operations field */
+ trig->ops = &trigger_ops;
+
+ /* now register the trigger with the IIO core */
+ iio_trigger_register(trig);
+
+IIO trigger ops
+===============
+
+* struct iio_trigger_ops — operations structure for an iio_trigger.
+
+Notice that a trigger has a set of operations attached:
+
+* :file:`set_trigger_state`, switch the trigger on/off on demand.
+* :file:`validate_device`, function to validate the device when the current
+ trigger gets changed.
+
+More details
+============
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/iio/trigger.h
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
+ :export: