Re: [v2 6/9] Documentation: ABI: document IIO thermocouple_type file

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:35:14 +0100
Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com> wrote:

> IIO core layer gained a new sysfs standard attribute "thermocouple_type".
> This patch adds it to the list of documented ABI for sysfs-bus-iio
> 
> Cc: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>
> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
> Cc: Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Cc: Patrick Havelange <patrick.havelange@essensium.com>
> Cc: Paresh Chaudhary <paresh.chaudhary@rockwellcollins.com>
> Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
> Cc: Matt Ranostay <matt.ranostay@konsulko.com>
> Cc: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Gomez <dagmcr@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> index 94f7eb675108..2cf2c800dba2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio
> @@ -1733,3 +1733,9 @@ Contact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
>  Description:
>  		Center frequency in Hz for a notch filter. Used i.e. for line
>  		noise suppression.
> +
> +What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_temp_thermocouple_type
> +KernelVersion:	5.5
> +Contact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
> +Description:
> +		Thermocouple type i.e. J, K, R, ...
Don't go with ...  No userspace can be written against unknowns.  How do you test it?

List all the types that existing drivers support and we can add to it if new
types show up.

Thanks,

Jonathan