Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] iio: core: Introduce IIO_CHAN_INFO_EMISSIVITY

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On 24/03/15 16:02, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 03/24/2015 04:54 PM, Vianney le Clément de Saint-Marcq wrote:
>> Contact-less IR temperature sensors measure the temperature of an object
>> by using its thermal radiation.  Surfaces with different emissivity
>> ratios emit different amounts of energy at the same temperature.
>>
>> IIO_CHAN_INFO_EMISSIVITY allows the user to inform the sensor of the
>> emissivity of the object in front of it, in order to effectively measure
>> its temperature.
> 

> All the other attributes that need to be setup according to the
> object being measured start with the calib prefix. So maybe call this
> calibemissivity.
Agreed. It's an internally applied calibration parameter (be it one that
is likely to change more than the average calibration!) so should have
the calib prefix.

Thanks,

Jonathan
> - Lars
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