Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] iio: resistance: Document that resistance can be output

From: Peter Rosin
Date: Tue Sep 22 2015 - 08:55:53 EST


On 2015-09-22 14:48, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
>> index 9398484196c4..2eea468f704d 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
>> @@ -1475,6 +1475,8 @@ Description:
>>
>> What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_resistance_raw
>> What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_resistanceX_raw
>> +What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/out_resistance_raw
>> +What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/out_resistanceX_raw
>> KernelVersion: 4.3
>> Contact: linux-iio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Description:
>
> One more thing. The description for this sections says:
>
> Â Â Raw (unscaled no offset etc.) resistance reading that
> can be processed
> Â Â into an ohm value.
>
> I'm not sure this still holds for out_resistanceX_raw. We have two options here:

I figured it did hold, since you effectively select what reading the
resistance inside the potentiometer should have. If it's really
important I can of course make another spin, but is this somthing
that is likely to be misunderstood?

> * remove 'reading' because with the out_ file we are basically setting
> the resistance
> raw value OR
> * add a separate section for out_ files, with proper description.
>
> Any other comments?
>
> thanks,
> Daniel.
>

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