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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..76133a379 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/iio/hw-consumer.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +=========== +HW consumer +=========== +An IIO device can be directly connected to another device in hardware. In this +case the buffers between IIO provider and IIO consumer are handled by hardware. +The Industrial I/O HW consumer offers a way to bond these IIO devices without +software buffer for data. The implementation can be found under +:file:`drivers/iio/buffer/hw-consumer.c` + + +* struct iio_hw_consumer — Hardware consumer structure +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_alloc` — Allocate IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_free` — Free IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_enable` — Enable IIO hardware consumer +* :c:func:`iio_hw_consumer_disable` — Disable IIO hardware consumer + + +HW consumer setup +================= + +As standard IIO device the implementation is based on IIO provider/consumer. +A typical IIO HW consumer setup looks like this:: + + static struct iio_hw_consumer *hwc; + + static const struct iio_info adc_info = { + .read_raw = adc_read_raw, + }; + + static int adc_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, + struct iio_chan_spec const *chan, int *val, + int *val2, long mask) + { + ret = iio_hw_consumer_enable(hwc); + + /* Acquire data */ + + ret = iio_hw_consumer_disable(hwc); + } + + static int adc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) + { + hwc = devm_iio_hw_consumer_alloc(&iio->dev); + } + +More details +============ +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c + :export: + |