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>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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