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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-10-28 09:44:56 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-10-28 09:44:56 -0700
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Merge 'staging-next' to Linus's tree
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were affected by files here. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Overview of IIO
-The Industrial I/O subsytem is intended to provide support for devices
-that in some sense are analog to digital convertors (ADCs). As many
-actual devices combine some ADCs with digital to analog convertors
+The Industrial I/O subsystem is intended to provide support for devices
+that in some sense are analog to digital converters (ADCs). As many
+actual devices combine some ADCs with digital to analog converters
(DACs) the intention is to add that functionality at a future date
(hence the name).
@@ -46,18 +46,17 @@ external signal (trigger). These triggers might be a data ready
signal, a gpio line connected to some external system or an on
processor periodic interrupt. A single trigger may initialize data
capture or reading from a number of sensors. These triggers are
-used in iio to fill software ring buffers acting in a very similar
+used in IIO to fill software ring buffers acting in a very similar
fashion to the hardware buffers described above.
Other documentation:
-userspace.txt - overview of ring buffer reading from userspace
+userspace.txt - overview of ring buffer reading from userspace.
-device.txt - elemennts of a typical device driver.
+device.txt - elements of a typical device driver.
trigger.txt - elements of a typical trigger driver.
-ring.txt - additional elements required for ring buffer support
-
-
+ring.txt - additional elements required for ring buffer support.
+sysfs-bus-iio - abi documentation file.
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