[PATCH v5] DocBook: Add initial documentation for IIO

[Daniel Baluta]

This is intended to help developers faster find their way
inside the Industrial I/O core and reduce time spent on IIO
drivers development.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Crt Mori <cmo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl | 697 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
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--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := z8530book.xml device-drivers.xml \
 	    80211.xml debugobjects.xml sh.xml regulator.xml \
 	    alsa-driver-api.xml writing-an-alsa-driver.xml \
 	    tracepoint.xml drm.xml media_api.xml w1.xml \
-	    writing_musb_glue_layer.xml crypto-API.xml
+	    writing_musb_glue_layer.xml crypto-API.xml iio.xml
 
 include Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile
 
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/iio.tmpl
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+	"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"; []>
+
+<book id="iioid">
+  <bookinfo>
+    <title>Industrial I/O driver developer's guide </title>
+
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Daniel</firstname>
+        <surname>Baluta</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address>
+            <email>daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx</email>
+          </address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+    </authorgroup>
+
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2015</year>
+      <holder>Intel Corporation</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+        This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+        it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+        License version 2.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
+  </bookinfo>
+
+  <toc></toc>
+
+  <chapter id="intro">
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+    <para>
+      The main purpose of the Industrial I/O subsystem (IIO) is to provide
+      support for devices that in some sense perform either analog-to-digital
+      conversion (ADC) or digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) or both. The aim
+      is to fill the gap between the somewhat similar hwmon and input
+      subsystems.
+      Hwmon is directed at low sample rate sensors used to monitor and
+      control the system itself, like fan speed control or temperature
+      measurement. Input is, as its name suggests, focused on human interaction
+      input devices (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen). In some cases there is
+      considerable overlap between these and IIO.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+    Devices that fall into this category include:
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        analog to digital converters (ADCs)
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        accelerometers
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        capacitance to digital converters (CDCs)
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        digital to analog converters (DACs)
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        gyroscopes
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        inertial measurement units (IMUs)
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        color and light sensors
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        magnetometers
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        pressure sensors
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        proximity sensors
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        temperature sensors
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    Usually these sensors are connected via SPI or I2C. A common use case of the
+    sensors devices is to have combined functionality (e.g. light plus proximity
+    sensor).
+  </para>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter id='iiosubsys'>
+    <title>Industrial I/O core</title>
+    <para>
+      The Industrial I/O core offers:
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+         a unified framework for writing drivers for many different types of
+         embedded sensors.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+         a standard interface to user space applications manipulating sensors.
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      The implementation can be found under <filename>
+      drivers/iio/industrialio-*</filename>
+  </para>
+  <sect1 id="iiodevice">
+    <title> Industrial I/O devices </title>
+
+!Finclude/linux/iio/iio.h iio_dev
+!Fdrivers/iio/industrialio-core.c iio_device_alloc
+!Fdrivers/iio/industrialio-core.c iio_device_free
+!Fdrivers/iio/industrialio-core.c iio_device_register
+!Fdrivers/iio/industrialio-core.c iio_device_unregister
+
+    <para>
+      An IIO device usually corresponds to a single hardware sensor and it
+      provides all the information needed by a driver handling a device.
+      Let's first have a look at the functionality embedded in an IIO
+      device then we will show how a device driver makes use of an IIO
+      device.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+        There are two ways for a user space application to interact
+        with an IIO driver.
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/</filename>, this
+          represents a hardware sensor and groups together the data
+          channels of the same chip.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>/dev/iio:deviceX</filename>, character device node
+          interface used for buffered data transfer and for events information
+          retrieval.
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+    A typical IIO driver will register itself as an I2C or SPI driver and will
+    create two routines, <function> probe </function> and <function> remove
+    </function>. At <function>probe</function>:
+    <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>call <function>iio_device_alloc</function>, which allocates memory
+      for an IIO device.
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem> initialize IIO device fields with driver specific information
+              (e.g. device name, device channels).
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>call <function> iio_device_register</function>, this registers the
+      device with the IIO core. After this call the device is ready to accept
+      requests from user space applications.
+    </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+      At <function>remove</function>, we free the resources allocated in
+      <function>probe</function> in reverse order:
+    <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem><function>iio_device_unregister</function>, unregister the device
+      from the IIO core.
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem><function>iio_device_free</function>, free the memory allocated
+      for the IIO device.
+    </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <sect2 id="iioattr"> <title> IIO device sysfs interface </title>
+      <para>
+        Attributes are sysfs files used to expose chip info and also allowing
+        applications to set various configuration parameters. For device
+        with index X, attributes can be found under
+        <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/ </filename> directory.
+        Common attributes are:
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem><filename>name</filename>, description of the physical
+            chip.
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem><filename>dev</filename>, shows the major:minor pair
+            associated with <filename>/dev/iio:deviceX</filename> node.
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem><filename>sampling_frequency_available</filename>,
+            available discrete set of sampling frequency values for
+            device.
+          </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      Available standard attributes for IIO devices are described in the
+      <filename>Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio </filename> file
+      in the Linux kernel sources.
+      </para>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="iiochannel"> <title> IIO device channels </title>
+!Finclude/linux/iio/iio.h iio_chan_spec structure.
+      <para>
+        An IIO device channel is a representation of a data channel. An
+        IIO device can have one or multiple channels. For example:
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+          a thermometer sensor has one channel representing the
+          temperature measurement.
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+          a light sensor with two channels indicating the measurements in
+          the visible and infrared spectrum.
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+          an accelerometer can have up to 3 channels representing
+          acceleration on X, Y and Z axes.
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      An IIO channel is described by the <type> struct iio_chan_spec
+      </type>. A thermometer driver for the temperature sensor in the
+      example above would have to describe its channel as follows:
+      <programlisting>
+      static const struct iio_chan_spec temp_channel[] = {
+          {
+              .type = IIO_TEMP,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED),
+          },
+      };
+
+      </programlisting>
+      Channel sysfs attributes exposed to userspace are specified in
+      the form of <emphasis>bitmasks</emphasis>. Depending on their
+      shared info, attributes can be set in one of the following masks:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem><emphasis>info_mask_separate</emphasis>, attributes will
+        be specific to this channel</listitem>
+      <listitem><emphasis>info_mask_shared_by_type</emphasis>,
+        attributes are shared by all channels of the same type</listitem>
+      <listitem><emphasis>info_mask_shared_by_dir</emphasis>, attributes
+        are shared by all channels of the same direction </listitem>
+      <listitem><emphasis>info_mask_shared_by_all</emphasis>,
+        attributes are shared by all channels</listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      When there are multiple data channels per channel type we have two
+      ways to distinguish between them:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem> set <emphasis> .modified</emphasis> field of <type>
+        iio_chan_spec</type> to 1. Modifiers are specified using
+        <emphasis>.channel2</emphasis> field of the same
+        <type>iio_chan_spec</type> structure and are used to indicate a
+        physically unique characteristic of the channel such as its direction
+        or spectral response. For example, a light sensor can have two channels,
+        one for infrared light and one for both infrared and visible light.
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem> set <emphasis>.indexed </emphasis> field of
+        <type>iio_chan_spec</type> to 1. In this case the channel is
+        simply another instance with an index specified by the
+        <emphasis>.channel</emphasis> field.
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      Here is how we can make use of the channel's modifiers:
+      <programlisting>
+      static const struct iio_chan_spec light_channels[] = {
+          {
+              .type = IIO_INTENSITY,
+              .modified = 1,
+              .channel2 = IIO_MOD_LIGHT_IR,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW),
+              .info_mask_shared = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ),
+          },
+          {
+              .type = IIO_INTENSITY,
+              .modified = 1,
+              .channel2 = IIO_MOD_LIGHT_BOTH,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW),
+              .info_mask_shared = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ),
+          },
+          {
+              .type = IIO_LIGHT,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED),
+              .info_mask_shared = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_SAMP_FREQ),
+          },
+
+      }
+      </programlisting>
+      This channel's definition will generate two separate sysfs files
+      for raw data retrieval:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+      <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/in_intensity_ir_raw</filename>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+      <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/in_intensity_both_raw</filename>
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      one file for processed data:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+      <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/in_illuminance_input
+      </filename>
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      and one shared sysfs file for sampling frequency:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+      <filename>/sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/sampling_frequency.
+      </filename>
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+      Here is how we can make use of the channel's indexing:
+      <programlisting>
+      static const struct iio_chan_spec light_channels[] = {
+          {
+              .type = IIO_VOLTAGE,
+              .indexed = 1,
+              .channel = 0,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW),
+          },
+          {
+              .type = IIO_VOLTAGE,
+              .indexed = 1,
+              .channel = 1,
+              .info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW),
+          },
+      }
+      </programlisting>
+      This will generate two separate attributes files for raw data
+      retrieval:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <filename>/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_voltage0_raw</filename>,
+          representing voltage measurement for channel 0.
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <filename>/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_voltage1_raw</filename>,
+          representing voltage measurement for channel 1.
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="iiobuffer"> <title> Industrial I/O buffers </title>
+!Finclude/linux/iio/buffer.h iio_buffer
+!Edrivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
+
+    <para>
+    The Industrial I/O core offers a way for continuous data capture
+    based on a trigger source. Multiple data channels can be read at once
+    from <filename>/dev/iio:deviceX</filename> character device node,
+    thus reducing the CPU load.
+    </para>
+
+    <sect2 id="iiobuffersysfs">
+    <title>IIO buffer sysfs interface </title>
+    <para>
+      An IIO buffer has an associated attributes directory under <filename>
+      /sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/buffer/</filename>. Here are the existing
+      attributes:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+      <emphasis>length</emphasis>, the total number of data samples
+      (capacity) that can be stored by the buffer.
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <emphasis>enable</emphasis>, activate buffer capture.
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+
+    </para>
+    </sect2>
+    <sect2 id="iiobuffersetup"> <title> IIO buffer setup </title>
+      <para>The meta information associated with a channel reading
+        placed in a buffer is called a <emphasis> scan element </emphasis>.
+        The important bits configuring scan elements are exposed to
+        userspace applications via the <filename>
+        /sys/bus/iio/iio:deviceX/scan_elements/</filename> directory. This
+        file contains attributes of the following form:
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem><emphasis>enable</emphasis>, used for enabling a channel.
+        If and only if its attribute is non zero, then a triggered capture
+        will contain data samples for this channel.
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem><emphasis>type</emphasis>, description of the scan element
+        data storage within the buffer and hence the form in which it is
+        read from user space. Format is <emphasis>
+        [be|le]:[s|u]bits/storagebitsXrepeat[>>shift] </emphasis>.
+        <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem> <emphasis>be</emphasis> or <emphasis>le</emphasis>, specifies
+          big or little endian.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+        <emphasis>s </emphasis>or <emphasis>u</emphasis>, specifies if
+          signed (2's complement) or unsigned.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem><emphasis>bits</emphasis>, is the number of valid data
+          bits.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem><emphasis>storagebits</emphasis>, is the number of bits
+          (after padding) that it occupies in the buffer.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+        <emphasis>shift</emphasis>, if specified, is the shift that needs
+          to be applied prior to masking out unused bits.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+        <emphasis>repeat</emphasis>, specifies the number of bits/storagebits
+        repetitions. When the repeat element is 0 or 1, then the repeat
+        value is omitted.
+        </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+      For example, a driver for a 3-axis accelerometer with 12 bit
+      resolution where data is stored in two 8-bits registers as
+      follows:
+      <programlisting>
+        7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0
+      +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+      |D3 |D2 |D1 |D0 | X | X | X | X | (LOW byte, address 0x06)
+      +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+
+        7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0
+      +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+      |D11|D10|D9 |D8 |D7 |D6 |D5 |D4 | (HIGH byte, address 0x07)
+      +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
+      </programlisting>
+
+      will have the following scan element type for each axis:
+      <programlisting>
+      $ cat /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device0/scan_elements/in_accel_y_type
+      le:s12/16>>4
+      </programlisting>
+      A user space application will interpret data samples read from the
+      buffer as two byte little endian signed data, that needs a 4 bits
+      right shift before masking out the 12 valid bits of data.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      For implementing buffer support a driver should initialize the following
+      fields in <type>iio_chan_spec</type> definition:
+      <programlisting>
+          struct iio_chan_spec {
+              /* other members */
+              int scan_index
+              struct {
+                  char sign;
+                  u8 realbits;
+                  u8 storagebits;
+                  u8 shift;
+                  u8 repeat;
+                  enum iio_endian endianness;
+              } scan_type;
+          };
+      </programlisting>
+      The driver implementing the accelerometer described above will
+      have the following channel definition:
+      <programlisting>
+      struct struct iio_chan_spec accel_channels[] = {
+          {
+            .type = IIO_ACCEL,
+            .modified = 1,
+            .channel2 = IIO_MOD_X,
+            /* other stuff here */
+            .scan_index = 0,
+            .scan_type = {
+              .sign = 's',
+              .realbits = 12,
+              .storgebits = 16,
+              .shift = 4,
+              .endianness = IIO_LE,
+            },
+        }
+        /* similar for Y (with channel2 = IIO_MOD_Y, scan_index = 1)
+         * and Z (with channel2 = IIO_MOD_Z, scan_index = 2) axis
+         */
+    }
+    </programlisting>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+    Here <emphasis> scan_index </emphasis> defines the order in which
+    the enabled channels are placed inside the buffer. Channels with a lower
+    scan_index will be placed before channels with a higher index. Each
+    channel needs to have a unique scan_index.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+    Setting scan_index to -1 can be used to indicate that the specific
+    channel does not support buffered capture. In this case no entries will
+    be created for the channel in the scan_elements directory.
+    </para>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+
+  <sect1 id="iiotrigger"> <title> Industrial I/O triggers  </title>
+!Finclude/linux/iio/trigger.h iio_trigger
+!Edrivers/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
+    <para>
+      In many situations it is useful for a driver to be able to
+      capture data based on some external event (trigger) as opposed
+      to periodically polling for data. An IIO trigger can be provided
+      by a device driver that also has an IIO device based on hardware
+      generated events (e.g. data ready or threshold exceeded) or
+      provided by a separate driver from an independent interrupt
+      source (e.g. GPIO line connected to some external system, timer
+      interrupt or user space writing a specific file in sysfs). A
+      trigger may initiate data capture for a number of sensors and
+      also it may be completely unrelated to the sensor itself.
+    </para>
+
+    <sect2 id="iiotrigsysfs"> <title> IIO trigger sysfs interface </title>
+      There are two locations in sysfs related to triggers:
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem><filename>/sys/bus/iio/devices/triggerY</filename>,
+          this file is created once an IIO trigger is registered with
+          the IIO core and corresponds to trigger with index Y. Because
+          triggers can be very different depending on type there are few
+          standard attributes that we can describe here:
+          <itemizedlist>
+            <listitem>
+              <emphasis>name</emphasis>, trigger name that can be later
+                used for association with a device.
+            </listitem>
+            <listitem>
+            <emphasis>sampling_frequency</emphasis>, some timer based
+              triggers use this attribute to specify the frequency for
+              trigger calls.
+            </listitem>
+          </itemizedlist>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/trigger/</filename>, this
+          directory is created once the device supports a triggered
+          buffer. We can associate a trigger with our device by writing
+          the trigger's name in the <filename>current_trigger</filename> file.
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </sect2>
+
+    <sect2 id="iiotrigattr"> <title> IIO trigger setup</title>
+
+    <para>
+      Let's see a simple example of how to setup a trigger to be used
+      by a driver.
+
+      <programlisting>
+      struct iio_trigger_ops trigger_ops = {
+          .set_trigger_state = sample_trigger_state,
+          .validate_device = sample_validate_device,
+      }
+
+      struct iio_trigger *trig;
+
+      /* first, allocate memory for our trigger */
+      trig = iio_trigger_alloc(dev, "trig-%s-%d", name, idx);
+
+      /* setup trigger operations field */
+      trig->ops = &amp;trigger_ops;
+
+      /* now register the trigger with the IIO core */
+      iio_trigger_register(trig);
+      </programlisting>
+    </para>
+    </sect2>
+
+    <sect2 id="iiotrigsetup"> <title> IIO trigger ops</title>
+!Finclude/linux/iio/trigger.h iio_trigger_ops
+     <para>
+        Notice that a trigger has a set of operations attached:
+        <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <function>set_trigger_state</function>, switch the trigger on/off
+          on demand.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <function>validate_device</function>, function to validate the
+          device when the current trigger gets changed.
+        </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+  <sect1 id="iiotriggered_buffer">
+    <title> Industrial I/O triggered buffers </title>
+    <para>
+    Now that we know what buffers and triggers are let's see how they
+    work together.
+    </para>
+    <sect2 id="iiotrigbufsetup"> <title> IIO triggered buffer setup</title>
+!Edrivers/iio/industrialio-triggered-buffer.c
+!Finclude/linux/iio/iio.h iio_buffer_setup_ops
+
+
+    <para>
+    A typical triggered buffer setup looks like this:
+    <programlisting>
+    const struct iio_buffer_setup_ops sensor_buffer_setup_ops = {
+      .preenable    = sensor_buffer_preenable,
+      .postenable   = sensor_buffer_postenable,
+      .postdisable  = sensor_buffer_postdisable,
+      .predisable   = sensor_buffer_predisable,
+    };
+
+    irqreturn_t sensor_iio_pollfunc(int irq, void *p)
+    {
+        pf->timestamp = iio_get_time_ns();
+        return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
+    }
+
+    irqreturn_t sensor_trigger_handler(int irq, void *p)
+    {
+        u16 buf[8];
+        int i = 0;
+
+        /* read data for each active channel */
+        for_each_set_bit(bit, active_scan_mask, masklength)
+            buf[i++] = sensor_get_data(bit)
+
+        iio_push_to_buffers_with_timestamp(indio_dev, buf, timestamp);
+
+        iio_trigger_notify_done(trigger);
+        return IRQ_HANDLED;
+    }
+
+    /* setup triggered buffer, usually in probe function */
+    iio_triggered_buffer_setup(indio_dev, sensor_iio_polfunc,
+                               sensor_trigger_handler,
+                               sensor_buffer_setup_ops);
+    </programlisting>
+    </para>
+    The important things to notice here are:
+    <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem><function> iio_buffer_setup_ops</function>, the buffer setup
+    functions to be called at predefined points in the buffer configuration
+    sequence (e.g. before enable, after disable). If not specified, the
+    IIO core uses the default <type>iio_triggered_buffer_setup_ops</type>.
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem><function>sensor_iio_pollfunc</function>, the function that
+    will be used as top half of poll function. It should do as little
+    processing as possible, because it runs in interrupt context. The most
+    common operation is recording of the current timestamp and for this reason
+    one can use the IIO core defined <function>iio_pollfunc_store_time
+    </function> function.
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem><function>sensor_trigger_handler</function>, the function that
+    will be used as bottom half of the poll function. This runs in the
+    context of a kernel thread and all the processing takes place here.
+    It usually reads data from the device and stores it in the internal
+    buffer together with the timestamp recorded in the top half.
+    </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter id='iioresources'>
+    <title> Resources </title>
+      IIO core may change during time so the best documentation to read is the
+      source code. There are several locations where you should look:
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>drivers/iio/</filename>, contains the IIO core plus
+          and directories for each sensor type (e.g. accel, magnetometer,
+          etc.)
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>include/linux/iio/</filename>, contains the header
+          files, nice to read for the internal kernel interfaces.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+        <filename>include/uapi/linux/iio/</filename>, contains files to be
+          used by user space applications.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+         <filename>tools/iio/</filename>, contains tools for rapidly
+          testing buffers, events and device creation.
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <filename>drivers/staging/iio/</filename>, contains code for some
+          drivers or experimental features that are not yet mature enough
+          to be moved out.
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    <para>
+    Besides the code, there are some good online documentation sources:
+    <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <ulink url="http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio";> Industrial I/O mailing
+      list </ulink>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <ulink url="http://wiki.analog.com/software/linux/docs/iio/iio";>
+      Analog Device IIO wiki page </ulink>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <ulink url="https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/iiosdr/";>
+      Using the Linux IIO framework for SDR, Lars-Peter Clausen's
+      presentation at FOSDEM </ulink>
+    </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+
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