Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] staging: iio: isl29018: add ABI documentation for infrared suppression

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On 10/10/16 21:57, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 10/10/16 08:20, Brian Masney wrote:
>> Add ABI documentation from the ISL29018 Data Sheet (FN6619.4, Oct 8,
>> 2012) about the infrared suppression that can be controlled
>> with the proximity_on_chip_ambient_infrared_suppression sysfs attribute.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I'm going to let this and the final move out of staging sit on the
> list a while longer to gather reviews.
Meh. Long enough ;)

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to ignore it.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> 
> It does feel like the below is rather cryptic and it might be possible
> to use a simpler description...  Maybe this is the best we can do.
> The naming makes it sound generic, but in reality it's a nasty bit
> of custom filtering that is not well described anywhere.
> 
> Jonathan
>> ---
>>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-light-isl29018          | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-light-isl29018
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-light-isl29018 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-light-isl29018
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..f0ce0a0
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-light-isl29018
>> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
>> +What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/proximity_on_chip_ambient_infrared_suppression
>> +Date:		January 2011
>> +KernelVersion:	2.6.37
>> +Contact:	linux-iio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> +Description:
>> +		From ISL29018 Data Sheet (FN6619.4, Oct 8, 2012) regarding the
>> +		infrared suppression:
>> +
>> +		Scheme 0, makes full n (4, 8, 12, 16) bits (unsigned) proximity
>> +		detection. The range of Scheme 0 proximity count is from 0 to
>> +		2^n. Logic 1 of this bit, Scheme 1, makes n-1 (3, 7, 11, 15)
>> +		bits (2's complementary) proximity_less_ambient detection. The
>> +		range of Scheme 1 proximity count is from -2^(n-1) to 2^(n-1).
>> +		The sign bit is extended for resolutions less than 16. While
>> +		Scheme 0 has wider dynamic range, Scheme 1 proximity detection
>> +		is less affected by the ambient IR noise variation.
>> +
>> +		0 Sensing IR from LED and ambient
>> +		1 Sensing IR from LED with ambient IR rejection
>>
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