On Saturday, January 09, 2016 at 05:31:24 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 07/01/16 15:21, Gabriele Mazzotta wrote: > > As per the ACPI specification (Revision 5.0) [1], the data coming > > from the sensor represent the ambient light illuminance reading > > expressed in lux. Use IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED instead of > > IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW to signify that the data are pre-processed. > > > > [1] http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec50.pdf > > > > Signed-off-by: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@xxxxxxxxx> > > Hm. Whilst it's a fix in a sense, the original didn't really 'break' > the ABI so I worry a little that this change may break others. > Irritating as it is, perhaps we should keep the _RAW and add _PROCESSED > (which will then be exactly the same value). > We'll also then need a comment in the code, that leaving the _RAW > elements was for ABI compatibility. > > What do others think? I'm not an IIO guru, but this does sound sensible. Do you know if any userland code which actually uses the ACPI ALS already ? Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
