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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: daniel.baluta@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jic23@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:25:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <143821594724431@kroah.com> (raw)


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     iio-abi-clarify-proximity-output-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From bdc10d57f236b534fb675a4bbefd10017aeb2b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:49:33 +0300
Subject: iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value

From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>

commit bdc10d57f236b534fb675a4bbefd10017aeb2b26 upstream.

Current description for proximity measurement is ambiguous. While
the first part says that proximity is measured by observing
reflectivity, the second part incorrectly infers that reported values
should behave like a distance.

This is because of AS3935 lightning sensor which uses the proximity
API, while not being a true proximity sensor.

Note this is marked for stable as it accompanies a fix in ABI usage
to the sx9500 driver which would otherwise appear to be correct.

Fixes:  614e8842ddf ("iio: ABI: add clarification for proximity")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
@@ -1165,10 +1165,8 @@ Description:
 		object is near the sensor, usually be observing
 		reflectivity of infrared or ultrasound emitted.
 		Often these sensors are unit less and as such conversion
-		to SI units is not possible.  Where it is, the units should
-		be meters.  If such a conversion is not possible, the reported
-		values should behave in the same way as a distance, i.e. lower
-		values indicate something is closer to the sensor.
+		to SI units is not possible. Higher proximity measurements
+		indicate closer objects, and vice versa.
 
 What:		/sys/.../iio:deviceX/in_illuminance_input
 What:		/sys/.../iio:deviceX/in_illuminance_raw


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.baluta@intel.com are

queue-4.1/iio-proximity-sx9500-fix-proximity-value.patch
queue-4.1/iio-abi-clarify-proximity-output-value.patch

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