Hello, > 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.
Acked-by: Peter Meerwald <[email protected]> > Fixes: 614e8842ddf ("iio: ABI: add clarification for proximity") > Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 6 ++---- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio > b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio > index bbed111..70c9b1a 100644 > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio > @@ -1234,10 +1234,8 @@ 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 > -- Peter Meerwald +43-664-2444418 (mobile) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
