[PATCH 2/2] iio: ABI: Clarify in_distance_* attribute usage

Cristina Opriceana cristina.opriceana at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 16:30:58 EEST 2015


This patch adds a clarification on the use of distance since
drivers like as3935 use it for computing proximity.

Signed-off-by: Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana at gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
index bbed111..86a2b3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
@@ -1213,8 +1213,9 @@ KernelVersion:	4.0
 Contact:	linux-iio at vger.kernel.org
 Description:
 		This attribute is used to read the distance covered by the user
-		since the last reboot while activated. Units after application
-		of scale are meters.
+		since the last reboot while activated. It is also used as a
+		means of proximity, lower values indicate something closer to
+		the sensor. Units after application of scale are meters.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/store_eeprom
 KernelVersion:	3.4.0
-- 
1.9.1



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