patch "iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value" added to staging-linus

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

iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value

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: Daniel Baluta <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:49:33 +0300
Subject: iio: ABI: Clarify proximity output value

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.

---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

index 3befcb19f414..1fbdd79d1624 100644
@@ -1165,10 +1165,8 @@ Description:
 		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

2.4.5