patch "iio: light: acpi-als: Report data as processed" added to staging-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

iio: light: acpi-als: Report data as processed

to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Gabriele Mazzotta <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:21:39 +0100
Subject: iio: light: acpi-als: Report data as processed

As per the ACPI specification (Revision 5.0) [1], the data coming from the sensor represent the ambient light illuminance reading expressed in lux. So use IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED to signify that the data are pre-processed.

However, to keep backward ABI compatibility, the IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW bit is not removed.

[1] http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec50.pdf

This issue has also been responsible for at least one userspace bug report hence marking what is a small semantic fix really for stable.
[2] https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/46

---
 drivers/iio/light/acpi-als.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 60537ec0c923..53201d99a16c 100644
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ static const struct iio_chan_spec acpi_als_channels[] = {
 			.realbits	= 32,
 			.storagebits	= 32,
 		},
-		.info_mask_separate	= BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW),
+		/* _RAW is here for backward ABI compatibility */
+		.info_mask_separate	= BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW) |
+					  BIT(IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED),
 	},
 };
 

@@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ static int acpi_als_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
 	s32 temp_val;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (mask != IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW)
+	if ((mask != IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED) && (mask != IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* we support only illumination (_ALI) so far. */

2.7.0