On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:17:14PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> The mounting matrix for sensors was introduced in
> commit dfc57732ad38 ("iio:core: mounting matrix support")
>
> However the device tree bindings are very terse and since this is
> a widely applicable property, we need a proper binding for it
> that the other bindings can reference. This will also be useful
> for other operating systems and sensor engineering at large.
>
> I think all 3D sensors should support it, the current situation
> is probably that the mounting information is confined in magic
> userspace components rather than using the mounting matrix, which
> is not good for portability and reuse.
>
> Cc: Gregor Boirie <gregor.boirie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.onkalo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Please help out to get this right, I think this could be confusing
> to users unless documented properly. I think the doc has some rough
> edges since I'm not the smartest in physics nor english at all times.
> ---
I can at least say I understand how it's supposed to work better now.
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On the duplication topic, of course I agree that sysfs docs should refer
to DT and not vice-versa.
Rob
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