Re: [PATCH] iio: kx022a: Fix acceleration value scaling

[Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>]

On 10/19/23 21:21, Jagath Jog J wrote:
> Hi Matti,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM Matti Vaittinen
> <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The IIO ABI mandates acceleration values from accelerometer to be
>> emitted in m/s^2. The KX022A was emitting values in micro m/s^2.
>>
>> Fix driver to report the correct scale values.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
>> Reported-by: Jagath Jog J <jagathjog1996@gmail.com>
>> Fixes: 7c1d1677b322 ("iio: accel: Support Kionix/ROHM KX022A accelerometer")
>>
>> ---
>> The fix is somewhat crude and just crops the last 3 digits (rounds) of the
>> scale while using IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_NANO. I played with a thought of using
>> IIO_VAL_FRACTIONAL, which could have modelled the computation
>> G_range * g * scaling / (2^16 * scaling) - where scaling 10000 would
>> have allowed using g value 980665.
>>
>> This would have worked fine for reporting scale and available scales -
>> but would be somewhat tricky when converting the user-supplied scale to
>> register values in write_raw().
>>
>> Well, the g varies from 9.832 (poles) to 9.780 (equator) according to
>> some website - no proper source check done but this sounds about right -
>> so maybe the loss of accuracy is acceptable.
>>
>> I did only very quick testing on KX022A and iio_generic_buffer. After
>> the patch the values seemed to be correct order of magnitude. Further
>> testing is appreciated :)
> 
> Values are correct with this change, Thank you for fixing.
> Tested-by: Jagath Jog J <jagathjog1996@gmail.com>

Thanks a ton for testing! May I ask which component did you use (or did 
you just use some 'simulated' regster values?)

Yours,
	-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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