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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: "Gabriele Mazzotta" <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin Liška" <marxin.liska@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Correctness of acpi-als channel mask
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:33:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512210033.32862.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5675813D.9040808@kernel.org>

On Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 05:09:33 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 17/12/15 20:32, Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a question regarding the acpi-als driver.
> > 
> > Currently acpi-als uses IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW to report the data coming
> > from the sensor. However, as per the ACPI specification [1] (section
> > 9.2.2), these values represent the ambient light illuminance expressed
> > in lux. Wouldn't IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED be more appropriate in this
> > case as the data are in theory pre-processed by the firmware of the
> > platform?
> 
> Looks like it to me as well.  Cc'd Marek and Martin.

Gotta say, I haven't looked at ACPI for a while now. My impression is that these 
data are RAW and the system software can adjust them based on the values in _ALR
table. The result of that would be _PROCESSED I think. But I might be entirely 
wrong.

> > [1] http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec50.pdf
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Gabriele
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-20 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-17 20:32 Correctness of acpi-als channel mask Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-12-19 16:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2015-12-20 23:33   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CABFtUbTggGGs7s0QtA=FeZx_ejwFHTBuxyhD8H_gmo9=R-HjwA@mail.gmail.com>
2015-12-21 14:45       ` Marek Vasut

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