Re: [PATCH 4/4] hwmon: vcnl3020: add hwmon driver for intrusion sensor
From: Ivan Mikhaylov <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-04 19:38:26
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From: Ivan Mikhaylov <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-04 19:38:26
Also in:
linux-hwmon, lkml
On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 09:38 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 06:24:19PM +0300, Ivan Mikhaylov wrote:quoted
Intrusion status detection via Interrupt Status Register. Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <redacted>I think this should, if at all, be handled using the iio->hwmon bridge (or, in other words, require a solution which is not chip specific).
Thanks a lot for suggestion, it's actually looks what's needed here instead of this driver. Anyways, there is no IIO_PROXIMITY support inside supported types in iio_hwmon.c. Should I add additional case inside this driver for IIO_PROXIMITY type?
I am also not sure if "proximity" is really appropriate to use for intrusion detection in the sense of hardware monitoring. This would require a proximity sensor within a chassis, which would be both overkill and unlikely to happen in the real world. "Intrusion", in hardware monitoring context, means "someone opened the chassis", not "someone got [too] close".
I'm not sure either but it exists :) And it's exactly for this purpose: "someone opened the chassis", "how near/far is cover?".