Re: Unit in which generic_buffer.c application gives data for sensors.

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:53 PM, s.rawat <imsaurabhrawat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * accel - m/s^2
>> * gyro - rad/s
>> * magneto - Gaus
>
> I get the data as below :
>
> in_accel_x 71000 71000.0 in_accel_y -45000 -45000.0 in_accel_z
> -1003000 -1003000.0
>
> This seems correct except I think the data from the device is
> definitely not in m/s2 , seems like it is in  "μg".What would be
> correct -> telling the  device firmware writer to change the fw to
> send data in m/s2 or I convert this data to m/s^2 at host end?


What driver is this? generic_buffer application reads the data
from device buffer than applies the offset and the scale.

Perhaps, your driver doesn't correctly expose the scale?

thanks,
Daniel.

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