Buffer support within IIO This document is intended as a general overview of the functionality a buffer may supply and how it is specified within IIO. For more specific information on a given buffer implementation, see the comments in the source code. Note that some drivers allow buffer implementation to be selected at compile time via Kconfig options. A given buffer implementation typically embeds a struct iio_ring_buffer and it is a pointer to this that is provided to the IIO core. Access to the embedding structure is typically done via container_of functions. struct iio_ring_buffer contains a struct iio_ring_setup_ops *setup_ops which in turn contains the 4 function pointers (preenable, postenable, predisable and postdisable). These are used to perform device specific steps on either side of the core changing its current mode to indicate that the buffer is enabled or disabled (along with enabling triggering etc. as appropriate). Also in struct iio_ring_buffer is a struct iio_ring_access_funcs. The function pointers within here are used to allow the core to handle as much buffer functionality as possible. Note almost all of these are optional. store_to If possible, push data to the buffer. read_last If possible, get the most recent scan from the buffer (without removal). This provides polling like functionality whilst the ring buffering is in use without a separate read from the device. rip_first_n The primary buffer reading function. Note that it may well not return as much data as requested. request_update If parameters have changed that require reinitialization or configuration of the buffer this will trigger it. get_bytes_per_datum, set_bytes_per_datum Get/set the number of bytes for a complete scan. (All samples + timestamp) get_length / set_length Get/set the number of complete scans that may be held by the buffer.