ADC overo 2.6.39+

Using the ADC's

From posts in the mailing list by Steve Sakoman and others

In linux-omap3-2.6.39 and 3.0 and above

The madc driver is now upstream and in the process it moved to the hwmon subsystem. It is now even easier to access using the /sys/class interface:

root@omap3-multi:~# ls /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/

curr10_input in11_input in3_input in7_input power

driver in12_input in4_input in8_input subsystem

hwmon in15_input in5_input in9_input temp1_input

in0_input in2_input in6_input modalias uevent

root@omap3-multi:~# cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/temp1_input

56

root@omap3-multi:~# cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/curr10_input

-750

ADC's via a system call

a quick and very nasty way to access them is by a system call

C

system("cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/in7_input");

Python

os.system("cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/in7_input")

Python

import os

import sys

import subprocess

cmd1 = "cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/in7_input"

process = subprocess.Popen(cmd1, stdout=subprocess.PIPE , shell=True)

os.waitpid(process.pid, 0)[1]

udata = process.stdout.read().strip()

print udata

In console (in interactive mode)

python

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 1 2011, 13:08:10)

[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2

>>> import os

>>> import sys

>>> import subprocess

>>> cmd1 = "cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/device/in7_input"

>>> process = subprocess.Popen(cmd1, stdout=subprocess.PIPE , shell=True)

>>> os.waitpid(process.pid, 0)[1]

0

>>> udata = process.stdout.read().strip()

>>> print udata

1388

>>>

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Building your own kernel

When building your own kernel Make sure your defconfig has CONFIG_TWL4030_MADC and CONFIG_SENSORS_TWL4030_MADC and make sure your rootfs has the module.

Link to kernel docs for Kernel driver twl4030-madc http://www.sakoman.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-omap-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/hwmon/twl4030-madc-hwmon;h=ef7984317cecb29eca6ef23a30c21d920e66ef31;hb=refs/heads/omap-2.6.39-pm