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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:04:56 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Éric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net> Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@...ia.com>, daniel@...aq.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lm-sensors@...sensors.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] lis3: Scale output values to mg > Op 10-11-09 13:41, Samu Onkalo schreef: > > Report output values as 1/1000 of earth gravity. > After the discussion started by Daniel, I'm willing to accept this patch > "as is", just with a better log explaining why it's ok to break > userspace ABI: > * the sysfs "position" attribute was never safe to be read as it could > have different scales depending on the underlying hardware. It's now > featuring a consistent scale, which is more or less identical to the one > used by the 12-bits sensors > * the joystick interface reports the same values as before, excepted of > course if "raw" values are requested, in which case the same remark as > for "position" applies. agreed. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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