Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] iio: Support triggered events

[Vladimir Barinov <vladimir.barinov@cogentembedded.com>]

Hi Lars,

On 07.08.2015 16:45, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/29/2015 02:57 PM, Vladimir Barinov wrote:
>> Support triggered events.
>>
>> This is useful for chips that don't have their own interrupt sources.
>> It allows to use generic/standalone iio triggers for those drivers.
>>
> Thanks for the patch. Can you describe in more detail how
> INDIO_EVENT_TRIGGERED differs from the INDIO_BUFFER_TRIGGERED. By just
> looking at the source code I don't understand quite why it is necessary.
This is needed for the case when iio buffer is not used and used only 
iio event.

The difference to INDIO_BUFFER_TRIGGERED is that for triggered buffer 
the trigger poll function is attached (using 
iio_trigger_attach_poll_func) only in
industrialio-buffer.c using number of steps/conditions starting by 
issuing 1 to buffer/enable sysfs path.

For chips that do not use iio buffer but use only iio events the 
iio_trigger_attach_poll_func never called.

In case of using INDIO_BUFFER_TRIGGERED the poll func is 
attached/detached via industrialio-buffer.c
In case of using INDIO_EVENT_TRIGGERED the poll func is 
attached/detached via industrialio-trigger.c during set/change the 
current trigger.

Regards,
Vladimir

>
> Thanks,
> - Lars
>