From d35d43d783bf770638098a8dd939e8fd270cafc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Meerwald-Stadler Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:48:46 +0200 Subject: Documentation: iio: Clarify meaning of IIO_DISTANCE channel type IIO_DISTANCE is used for two purposes: for pedometers to record the distance covered by a walker, and to measure the distance to an object IIO_DISTANCE is in meters while IIO_PROXIMITY is a unitless measure indirectly proportional to distance (higher value relates to a closer object) Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio index 7eead5f97e02..3fc79185cc56 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio @@ -1242,9 +1242,9 @@ What: /sys/.../iio:deviceX/in_distance_raw KernelVersion: 4.0 Contact: linux-iio@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. + This attribute is used to read the measured distance to an object + or the distance covered by the user since the last reboot while + activated. Units after application of scale are meters. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/store_eeprom KernelVersion: 3.4.0 -- cgit