Standard deviation is calculated as the square root of the variance
where variance is the mean of sample_sum and length. Correct the
computation of statP->stddev in accordance to the proper calculation.
Fixes: 3c97c08b5735 ("staging: iio: add TAOS tsl2x7x driver")
Reported-by: Abhiram Balasubramanian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eva Rachel Retuya <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x_core.c
b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x_core.c
index ea15bc1..197201a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x_core.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void tsl2x7x_prox_calculate(int *data, int length,
tmp = data[i] - statP->mean;
sample_sum += tmp * tmp;
}
- statP->stddev = int_sqrt((long)sample_sum) / length;
+ statP->stddev = int_sqrt((long)sample_sum / length);
}
/**
--
2.7.4
