Re: [PATCH] iio: magnetometer: si7210: fix magnetic field measurement scale

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:39:20 +0100
Antoni Pokusinski <apokusinski01@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:26:27AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:07:10AM +0100, Antoni Pokusinski wrote:  
> > > Applying the current scale value to the raw magnetic field measurements
> > > gives the result in mT.
> > > 
> > > Fix the scale by increasing it 10 times, so that the final result after
> > > applying the scale is in Gauss.  
> > 
> > No objections against this change, just wondering since these are
> > the ABI changes (correct?) how should we really handle them in case
> > some of the user space stuff already relies on 'bad' values?
> > 
> > -- 
> > With Best Regards,
> > Andy Shevchenko
> > 
> >   
> 
> Just to clarify: yes, this patch makes the output values compliant to
> ABI (Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio). According to the ABI, the
> output values for the magnetic field should be in Gauss, but during
> the driver development I missed the fact that I return values in mT
> instead... (1 Gauss = 0.1mT)
> 
> BTW I see that the patch cb29542a178f ("iio: magnetometer: si7210: add
> driver for Si7210") is still on the "testing" branch only, so perhaps
> it's still not too late to apply the fix?
> 
Ah. I'd not registered that.  Definitely makes life easier.
This will just get queued up behind it and land upstream at the same
time.

Jonathan

> Kind regards,
> Antoni
> 
>