Re: [PATCH] iio: ABI: fix current_trigger description

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 13:55:33 -0600
David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:

> On 2/4/26 1:50 PM, Cosmin-Gabriel Tanislav wrote:
> >> From: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2026 9:44 PM
> >>
> >> On 2/4/26 12:02 PM, Cosmin Tanislav wrote:  
> >>> Triggers exist under /sys/bus/iio/devices/, not under /sys/class/iio.
> >>> /sys/class/iio does not even exist. Use the current path.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Cosmin Tanislav <cosmin-gabriel.tanislav.xa@renesas.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 2 +-
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> >>> index 5f87dcee78f7..4fc9f6bd4281 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> >>> @@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ KernelVersion:	2.6.35
> >>>  Contact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> >>>  Description:
> >>>  		The name of the trigger source being used, as per string given
> >>> -		in /sys/class/iio/triggerY/name.
> >>> +		in /sys/bus/iio/devices/triggerY/name.  
> >>
> >> While we are fixing this, the docs refer to it as triggerX rather than
> >> triggerY.
> >>  
> > 
> > While I do agree that triggerX would match the definition inside
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-trigger-sysfs, I think
> > triggerY is the correct name here, because iio:deviceX is used
> > right above. If we were to use triggerX, it would leave the
> > impression that the X from deviceX and the X from triggerX are the
> > same value.
> >   
> Fair point.
> 
Agreed and applied.

Thanks,

Jonathan