>-----Original Message----- >From: ext Daniel Mack [mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxx] >Sent: 21 April, 2010 15:10 >To: Onkalo Samu.P (Nokia-D/Tampere) >Cc: eric.piel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kalhan.trisal@xxxxxxxxx; lm-sensors@lm- >sensors.org >Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] lis3: Scale output values to mg > >Hi Samu, > >On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:30:07PM +0100, samu.p.onkalo@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:30:07 +0100 >> From: samu.p.onkalo@xxxxxxxxx >> To: daniel@xxxxxxxx >> CC: eric.piel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kalhan.trisal@xxxxxxxxx, >> lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 09/10] lis3: Scale output values to mg >> Message-ID: <62697B07E9803846BC582181BD6FB6B8256DACE233@NOK-EUMSG- >02.mgdnok.nokia.com> >> >> >On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:09:44PM +0200, Samu Onkalo wrote: >> >> Report output values as 1/1000 of earth gravity. >> > >> >Without having tried that, I assume that changes the values >> >for all events reported? That would break all userspace >> >clients of this device, right? >> > >> >> Yes. That is one thing which need to agreed here. One possibility is >to >> implement this as a configurable feature for example using platform >data. >> In that kind of solution default value must be the old way. > >This hits us now in user space applictions. No big deal, we will just >change our parsers. But I wonder whether you have a fix factor at hand >to apply here for calculation? I'm too lazy to reverse all the thinking >behind the conversion in order to get that number ;) > For 8 bit devices: unscaled_value * 18 = scaled_to_mg_value For 12 bit devices: unscaled_value * 0.977 = scaled_to_mg_value -Samu _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
