This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 63fc444967591c3849438aa0f21d5de96a928311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:49:33 +0300
Subject: iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value
Current description for proximity measurement is ambiguous. While
the first part says that proximity is measured by observing
reflectivity, the second part incorrectly infers that reported values
should behave like a distance.
This is because of AS3935 lightning sensor which uses the proximity
API, while not being a true proximity sensor.
Note this is marked for stable as it accompanies a fix in ABI usage
to the sx9500 driver which would otherwise appear to be correct.
Fixes: 614e8842ddf ("iio: ABI: add clarification for proximity")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
index bbed111c31b4..70c9b1ac66db 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
@@ -1234,10 +1234,8 @@ Description:
object is near the sensor, usually be observing
reflectivity of infrared or ultrasound emitted.
Often these sensors are unit less and as such conversion
- to SI units is not possible. Where it is, the units should
- be meters. If such a conversion is not possible, the reported
- values should behave in the same way as a distance, i.e. lower
- values indicate something is closer to the sensor.
+ to SI units is not possible. Higher proximity measurements
+ indicate closer objects, and vice versa.
What: /sys/.../iio:deviceX/in_illuminance_input
What: /sys/.../iio:deviceX/in_illuminance_raw
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