Have either of you seen any updates on fixes for this?  I have done some 
searching and have not yet come up with anything that may fix the issue in 
any active kernel patches.

I am using a similar workaround to retry on failure, but am considering 
digging into this to fix the root cause.

Zach

On Sunday, August 25, 2013 7:09:21 AM UTC-5, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> I am having serious problems using multiple ADC channels in the latest 
> -bone26 kernel.  When reading more than one ADC channel, you cannot read 
> more than 15 samples before getting an I/O error reading the AINx file 
> from sysfs (Resource temporarily unavailable).  The read rate doesn't 
> matter, the problem appears to be related to switching between the 
> channels somehow. 
>
> Can anyone else verify this issue? 
>
> Who gets bug reports about the BeagleBone kernel patch set?  This 
> doesn't quite seem appropriate for the OMAP kernel list, or is it? 
>
> DETAILS TO REPRODUCE: 
>
> I have a simplistic test script to reproduce this behavior, assuming you 
> have previously loaded the cape-bone-iio overlay: 
>
> #/bin/sh 
> while : ; do 
>         for ADC in AIN4 AIN5 ; do 
>                 echo -n "$ADC: " 
>                 cat /sys/devices/ocp.*/helper.*/$ADC 
>                 sleep 1 
>         done 
> done 
>
> When you run this, after every 15 reads of AIN4, the system throws an 
> I/O error and the 16th read of AIN4 fails.  At this point, things seem 
> to reset and you can read another 15 values before the next error. 
>
> Example output: 
>
> ... 
> AIN4: 589 
> AIN5: 817 
> AIN4: 586 
> AIN5: 811 
> AIN4: 588 
> AIN5: 816 
> AIN4: cat: /sys/devices/ocp.2/helper.12/AIN4: Resource temporarily 
> unavailable 
> AIN5: 997 
> AIN4: 597 
> AIN5: 1000 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 996 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 995 
> AIN4: 598 
> AIN5: 999 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 997 
> AIN4: 594 
> AIN5: 992 
> AIN4: 597 
> AIN5: 998 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 994 
> AIN4: 597 
> AIN5: 999 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 997 
> AIN4: 594 
> AIN5: 993 
> AIN4: 598 
> AIN5: 999 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 997 
> AIN4: 595 
> AIN5: 994 
> AIN4: 598 
> AIN5: 997 
> AIN4: cat: /sys/devices/ocp.2/helper.12/AIN4: Resource temporarily 
> unavailable 
> AIN5: 994 
> AIN4: 598 
> ... 
>
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler 
> [email protected] <javascript:> 
>
>

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