Linux IIO development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: iio: Document intensity scale as poorly defined
Date: Thu,  7 Dec 2023 14:41:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231207134200.329174-1-marex@denx.de> (raw)

Add comment about intensity scale being poorly defined and
having no proper units.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
---
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
index 0d3ec5fc45f2f..94b8d8461b7c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
@@ -618,7 +618,9 @@ KernelVersion:	2.6.35
 Contact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
 Description:
 		If a discrete set of scale values is available, they
-		are listed in this attribute.
+		are listed in this attribute. Unlike illumination,
+		multiplying intensity by intensity_scale does not
+		yield value with any standardized unit.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/out_voltageY_hardwaregain
 What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_intensity_hardwaregain
-- 
2.42.0


             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-07 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-07 13:41 Marek Vasut [this message]
2023-12-10 11:58 ` [PATCH] doc: iio: Document intensity scale as poorly defined Jonathan Cameron
2023-12-10 15:29   ` Marek Vasut

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20231207134200.329174-1-marex@denx.de \
    --to=marex@denx.de \
    --cc=jic23@kernel.org \
    --cc=lars@metafoo.de \
    --cc=linux-iio@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox