We should return the number of bytes written/read, not 0 on success.
This number may be useful in some cases so return it.
While at it fix a simple wrong space in the header.
Due to the way the headers are organized changing a single change in an
inertial sensor driver would trigger a rebuild for most of the files in
the project. Time could be saved by using ccache (since most of the
things didn't change) but we can do better, i.e. re-organize the headers
so we don't have to re-build everything.
With this patch only AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor.h is exposed to
most users. There are some corner cases to integrate with some example
code, but most of the places now depend only on this header and this
header doesn't depend on the specific backends.
Now changing a single header, e.g. AP_InertialSensor_L3G4200D.h triggers
a rebuild only of these files:
$ waf copter
'copter' finished successfully (0.000s)
Waf: Entering directory `/home/lucas/p/dronecode/ardupilot/build/minlure'
[ 80/370] Compiling libraries/AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor.cpp
[ 84/370] Compiling libraries/AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor_L3G4200D.cpp
[310/370] Linking build/minlure/ArduCopter/libArduCopter_libs.a
[370/370] Linking build/minlure/bin/arducopter
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/lucas/p/dronecode/ardupilot/build/minlure'
Using MPU9250 over I2C we can connect the auxiliary bus where there is
a AK8963 and connect this bus to the main one, this way we don't need
any AuxiliaryBus infrastructure as we need with SPI and we can talk
with AK8963 as we would talk with a standalone AK8963.
Most of AP_Progmem is already gone so we can stop including it in most
of the places. The only places that need it are the ones using
pgm_read_*() APIs.
In some cases the header needed to be added in the .cpp since it was
removed from the .h to reduce scope. In those cases the headers were
also reordered.
This commit changes the way libraries headers are included in source files:
- If the header is in the same directory the source belongs to, so the
notation '#include ""' is used with the path relative to the directory
containing the source.
- If the header is outside the directory containing the source, then we use
the notation '#include <>' with the path relative to libraries folder.
Some of the advantages of such approach:
- Only one search path for libraries headers.
- OSs like Windows may have a better lookup time.
Now we have the initialization code split in 2 parts:
1) Making sure the MPU9250 chip is alive and working: this is now in a
static function that may be called by other drivers that use MPU9250 as
backend.
2) The configuration of gyro and accel. Once the first part is completed
successfully the AP_InertialSensor_MPU9250 finishes the configuration of
the sensors it uses.
The only change in behavior here is that before we would try 25 time (5x
inside _hardware_init time 5x inside _init_sensor() that calls the first
function) to "boot the chip" and now we are doing "only" 5.
Add static methods to do the SPI transactions and provide the wrapper
methods when we have an instance of the object. This is useful so these
methods can be called from other contexts when the AP_InertialSensor
hasn't been initialized yet.
The previous implementation made some boards apply two rotations to suit
their default orientation. That was happening because there was an
unconditional rotation being done (commented as "rotate for bbone
default").
This commit makes that unconditional rotation as a default rotation
instead and adjusts the former additional rotations to be single
rotations.
when running off a 1kHz timer and reading at 1kHz it is better to
double sample than it is to skip a sample, as skipping samples will
throw the filter off, whereas a double sample will have minimal effect
Lucas De Marchi
Andrew Tridgell
José Roberto de Souza
mirkix
Gustavo Jose de Sousa
Jonathan Challinger
Andrew Tridgell
Víctor Mayoral Vilches