iio:core: add a callback to allow drivers to provide _available attributes

A large number of attributes can only take a limited range of values.
Currently in IIO this is handled by directly registering additional
*_available attributes thus providing this information to userspace.

It is desirable to provide this information via the core for much the same
reason this was done for the actual channel information attributes in the
first place.  If it isn't there, then it can only really be accessed from
userspace.  Other in kernel IIO consumers have no access to what valid
parameters are.

Two forms are currently supported:
* list of values in one particular IIO_VAL_* format.
	e.g. 1.300000 1.500000 1.730000
* range specification with a step size:
	e.g. [1.000000 0.500000 2.500000]
	equivalent to 1.000000 1.5000000 2.000000 2.500000

An addition set of masks are used to allow different sharing rules for the
*_available attributes generated.

This allows for example:

in_accel_x_offset
in_accel_y_offset
in_accel_offset_available.

We could have gone with having a specification for each and every
info_mask element but that would have meant changing the existing userspace
ABI.  This approach does not.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
[forward ported, added some docs and fixed buffer overflows /peda]
Acked-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
index 4591d8e..849d524 100644
--- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h
+++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
@@ -225,12 +225,22 @@ struct iio_event_spec {
  *			endianness:	little or big endian
  * @info_mask_separate: What information is to be exported that is specific to
  *			this channel.
+ * @info_mask_separate_available: What availability information is to be
+ *			exported that is specific to this channel.
  * @info_mask_shared_by_type: What information is to be exported that is shared
  *			by all channels of the same type.
+ * @info_mask_shared_by_type_available: What availability information is to be
+ *			exported that is shared by all channels of the same
+ *			type.
  * @info_mask_shared_by_dir: What information is to be exported that is shared
  *			by all channels of the same direction.
+ * @info_mask_shared_by_dir_available: What availability information is to be
+ *			exported that is shared by all channels of the same
+ *			direction.
  * @info_mask_shared_by_all: What information is to be exported that is shared
  *			by all channels.
+ * @info_mask_shared_by_all_available: What availability information is to be
+ *			exported that is shared by all channels.
  * @event_spec:		Array of events which should be registered for this
  *			channel.
  * @num_event_specs:	Size of the event_spec array.
@@ -269,9 +279,13 @@ struct iio_chan_spec {
 		enum iio_endian endianness;
 	} scan_type;
 	long			info_mask_separate;
+	long			info_mask_separate_available;
 	long			info_mask_shared_by_type;
+	long			info_mask_shared_by_type_available;
 	long			info_mask_shared_by_dir;
+	long			info_mask_shared_by_dir_available;
 	long			info_mask_shared_by_all;
+	long			info_mask_shared_by_all_available;
 	const struct iio_event_spec *event_spec;
 	unsigned int		num_event_specs;
 	const struct iio_chan_spec_ext_info *ext_info;
@@ -349,6 +363,14 @@ struct iio_dev;
  *			max_len specifies maximum number of elements
  *			vals pointer can contain. val_len is used to return
  *			length of valid elements in vals.
+ * @read_avail:		function to return the available values from the device.
+ *			mask specifies which value. Note 0 means the available
+ *			values for the channel in question.  Return value
+ *			specifies if a IIO_AVAIL_LIST or a IIO_AVAIL_RANGE is
+ *			returned in vals. The type of the vals are returned in
+ *			type and the number of vals is returned in length. For
+ *			ranges, there are always three vals returned; min, step
+ *			and max. For lists, all possible values are enumerated.
  * @write_raw:		function to write a value to the device.
  *			Parameters are the same as for read_raw.
  * @write_raw_get_fmt:	callback function to query the expected
@@ -397,6 +419,13 @@ struct iio_info {
 			int *val_len,
 			long mask);
 
+	int (*read_avail)(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
+			  struct iio_chan_spec const *chan,
+			  const int **vals,
+			  int *type,
+			  int *length,
+			  long mask);
+
 	int (*write_raw)(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 			 struct iio_chan_spec const *chan,
 			 int val,
diff --git a/include/linux/iio/types.h b/include/linux/iio/types.h
index 32b5795..2aa7b63 100644
--- a/include/linux/iio/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/iio/types.h
@@ -29,4 +29,9 @@ enum iio_event_info {
 #define IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL 10
 #define IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL_LOG2 11
 
+enum iio_available_type {
+	IIO_AVAIL_LIST,
+	IIO_AVAIL_RANGE,
+};
+
 #endif /* _IIO_TYPES_H_ */