how to read info from ../iio/device/../iio:device0

[Rita_Wang]

Cheng Shi wrote:

Hi, Otavio Salvador

I have updated mxs_lradc.c in Linux-3.9.7 according to the two commits in https://community.freescale.com/thread/309351. The normal AD channels are working, and I can see their value with system command #cat in_temp9_raw etc. My question is how to read those values in my program. Are there any example code available? Thanks

BR

Cheng Shi

emtronix

[jonathanben-avr]

The iio subsystem provides two ways to program the ADC and read the values:

1. One-shot conversions performed by reading the files in /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/
2. Continuous conversions of a single channel at a time using the /dev/iio:device0 character device file

There is no other API. Nothing like an ioctl that would let you program the device and do multiple conversions and read the results with a single system call. So you need to write your own code to open the /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0/ files, read the contents, and convert them from ASCII to unsigned int for doing whatever your program needs to do with the values.

The iioutils package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/iioutils/) does all of this for you, so that's probably the best place to copy the code from.

There is some nice backgroud documentation for other processors and sensors on http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_ADC_Driver%27s_Guide and in Enabling input (sensor) access for ARM devices : Blueprints : Ubuntu.

There is also a libiio package (analogdevicesinc/libiio · GitHub) that adds a lot of syntactic sugar, but at the lower level doesn't do things differently than iioutils.

[chandraevolute]

are there any kernel API's for ADC??

[florian_germain]

Hi Jonathan,

i have not much experience in Linux development and use imx6sx on sabreSd board.

I need to use ADC and followed Freescale documentation "imx6_Linux_Reference_Manual" and checked kernel configuration by menuconfig:

Device Drivers > Industrial I/O support> Analog to digital converters > Freescale vf610

This was already activated.

My problem is i can't see /sys/bus/iio directory.

This documentation speak about these directories:

/sys/devices/soc0/soc.1/2200000.aips-bus/2280000.adc/iio:device0:

/sys/devices/soc0/soc.1/2200000.aips-bus/2284000.adc/iio:device1:

These directories exist

/sys/devices/soc0/soc.0/2200000.aips-bus/2280000.adc/

/sys/devices/soc0/soc.0/2200000.aips-bus/2284000.adc/

But they don't contain iio directories.

Have you got an idea what this is due to?

Thank you for your help.