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diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt b/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt index cc6ecad..d97106c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/Documentation/overview.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ 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. |
