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On 12/01/2014 09:46 PM, Daniel Baluta wrote:
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>>> User space application will read /dev/iio:deviceX to get data
>>> samples. How would they know the source of the data samples?
>>
>>
>> What exactly do you mean by source?
>
> By source I mean accelerometer or magnetometer in the case of KMX61 sensor.

The channel type of the iio device should make it pretty clear which one it 
is ;) You can also add a suffix to the IIO device name.