iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO device

With this change, an ioctl() call is added to open a character device for a
buffer. The ioctl() number is 'i' 0x91, which fol

iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO device

With this change, an ioctl() call is added to open a character device for a
buffer. The ioctl() number is 'i' 0x91, which follows the
IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL ioctl.

The ioctl() will return an FD for the requested buffer index. The indexes
are the same from the /sys/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY (i.e. the Y
variable).

Since there doesn't seem to be a sane way to return the FD for buffer0 to
be the same FD for the /dev/iio:deviceX, this ioctl() will return another
FD for buffer0 (or the first buffer). This duplicate FD will be able to
access the same buffer object (for buffer0) as accessing directly the
/dev/iio:deviceX chardev.

Also, there is no IIO_BUFFER_GET_BUFFER_COUNT ioctl() implemented, as the
index for each buffer (and the count) can be deduced from the
'/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY' folders (i.e the number of
bufferY folders).

Used following C code to test this:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <fcntl.h"
#include <errno.h>

#define IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL _IOWR('i', 0x91, int)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
int fd1;
int ret;

if ((fd = open("/dev/iio:device0", O_RDWR))<0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error open() %d errno %d\n",fd, errno);
return -1;
}

fprintf(stderr, "Using FD %d\n", fd);

fd1 = atoi(argv[1]);

ret = ioctl(fd, IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL, &fd1);
if (ret < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error for buffer %d ioctl() %d errno %d\n", fd1, ret, errno);
close(fd);
return -1;
}

fprintf(stderr, "Got FD %d\n", fd1);

close(fd1);
close(fd);

return 0;
}
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Results are:
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# ./test 0
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 1
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 2
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 3
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ls /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0
buffer buffer0 buffer1 buffer2 buffer3 dev
in_voltage_sampling_frequency in_voltage_scale
in_voltage_scale_available
name of_node power scan_elements subsystem uevent
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iio:device0 has some fake kfifo buffers attached to an IIO device.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215104043.91251-21-alexandru.ardelean@analog.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

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