Re: [PATCH v2 04/19] iio: chemical: bme680: Fix sensor data read operation

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Thu,  6 Jun 2024 23:22:56 +0200
Vasileios Amoiridis <vassilisamir@gmail.com> wrote:

> A read operation is happening as follows:
> 
> a) Set sensor to forced mode
> b) Sensor measures values and update data registers and sleeps again
> c) Read data registers
> 
> In the current implementation the read operation happens immediately
> after the sensor is set to forced mode so the sensor does not have
> the time to update properly the registers. This leads to the following
> 2 problems:
> 
> 1) The first ever value which is read by the register is always wrong
> 2) Every read operation, puts the register into forced mode and reads
> the data that were calculated in the previous conversion.
> 
> This behaviour was tested in 2 ways:
> 
> 1) The internal meas_status_0 register was read before and after every
> read operation in order to verify that the data were ready even before
> the register was set to forced mode and also to check that after the
> forced mode was set the new data were not yet ready.
> 
> 2) Physically changing the temperature and measuring the temperature
> 
> This commit adds the waiting time in between the set of the forced mode
> and the read of the data. The function is taken from the Bosch BME68x
> Sensor API [1].
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/boschsensortec/BME68x_SensorAPI/blob/v4.4.8/bme68x.c#L490
> Fixes: 1b3bd8592780 ("iio: chemical: Add support for Bosch BME680 sensor")
> Signed-off-by: Vasileios Amoiridis <vassilisamir@gmail.com>
Applied and marked for stable.