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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>
Cc: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
	tzungbi@kernel.org, chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] iio: cros_ec_sensors: add cros_ec_activity driver
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 17:13:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250607171301.537dd168@jic23-huawei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMHSBOUb-HPqmW3CFspipNGQGzbYUV+oqVw-Cbw0Bk4Huwz-QQ@mail.gmail.com>

> > > +     for_each_set_bit(i, &activities, BITS_PER_LONG) {
> > > +             /* List all available triggers */
> > > +             if (i == MOTIONSENSE_ACTIVITY_BODY_DETECTION) {
> > > +                     channel->type = IIO_PROXIMITY;
> > > +                     channel->info_mask_separate = BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW);
> > > +                     channel->modified = 0;  
> >
> > Not modified is the 'obvious' default so can probably drop that one.
> >  
> > > +                     channel->event_spec = cros_ec_body_detect_events;
> > > +                     channel->num_event_specs =
> > > +                             ARRAY_SIZE(cros_ec_body_detect_events);
> > > +                     st->body_detection_channel_index = index;
> > > +             } else {
> > > +                     channel->type = IIO_ACTIVITY;  
> >
> > This is getting a little creative.  Do we know anything about what the
> > underlying detection actually is?  Activity sensor are often some form
> > of magnitude sensor on a specific type of data.  I guess if we have no
> > idea what this then activity detection makes some sense.  
> As written earlier, the event is triggered when a threshold is
> crossed. So contrary to other activity sensors like walking or
> swimming, there is no confidence level, it just happened that we are
> not still anymore.

The confidence level is a bit of a fiction for all sensors. I just wanted
the ABI to allow for algorithms getting more clever over time.  Right now
they all claim to be 0 or 100.

Anyhow, I don't think that matters anyway.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-06-07 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-23 17:27 [PATCH v4] iio: cros_ec_sensors: add cros_ec_activity driver Gwendal Grignou
2025-05-25 13:42 ` Jonathan Cameron
2025-06-04  5:41   ` Gwendal Grignou
2025-06-05  3:13     ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2025-06-07 16:13     ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2025-05-25 13:43 ` Jonathan Cameron

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