comedi(7)

📦 version 0.11.0+5, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ comedi(7) ✨

okay bestie, buckle up 💖 this is a page from the Miscellaneous Information Manual (yes that's literally the manual name, it's giving "odds and ends" and honestly? iconic) and it's all about comedi, the Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface. no cap, this is the one that talks to actual physical hardware. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

comedi — the Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

#include <comedi.h>
#include <comedilib.h>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the tea is there's two packages here and they're a whole duo, main character energy fr fr 🫶

  • the comedi package is a collection of hardware drivers
  • the comedilib package is a collection of library routines that you use to communicate with a variety of data acquisition boards

and when we say data acquisition boards we mean the whole squad: A/D converters, D/A converters, digital I/O and timers. literally the entire friend group. 😭✨

🎀 OTHER DOCUMENTATION 🎀

need the hardware and driver configuration deets, plus device-specific info? it lives in the comedi source, in the file:

Documentation/comedi/drivers.txt

or in the comedilib source, in the file:

doc/drivers.txt

and for the actual programming documentation for comedilib? that's in the Comedilib manual. go read it, bestie, it's right there 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 VERSION 🌈

0.7.x

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

David Schleef

lowkey a short page but every single word ate, no crumbs left 💅

okay that's the whole vibe check — signing off from comedi(7) in the Miscellaneous Information Manual, version 0.7.x, brought to you by David Schleef, and this page is officially a wrap 🎀💖✨

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