Re: hdc100x driver backport

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:54:07PM +0000, De Vos, Bart (EXT - BE/Antwerp) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to backport the hdc100x driver to v3.10.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the temperature offset, especially here:
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v4.10/drivers/iio/humidity/hdc100x.c#L239
> 
> I see the goal is to have millidegrees, and as such I would expect an offset of -40000. I don't understand the numbers used here and the relationship between the two.
> If I read out the offset in runtime I got the value specified to 'val' on line 240.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> Kr,
> Bart.

Hi Bart,

Copying Matt Ranostay as he is the author/expert on this driver.

hdc100x temperature is calculated as:
(raw + offset) * scale / 1000

Here's a sample reading:
raw: 25443 scale: 2.517700195 offset: -15887.515151 resolution: 0.006350
Temperature 24057.846068

Hope that helps,
alisons

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