[PATCH] iio: accel: dmard09: Implement IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE

From: Mert Seftali

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 09:08:16 EST


From: Mert Seftali <mertsftl@xxxxxxxxx>

in_accel_scale has returned -EINVAL ever since the driver was added.

The channels advertise scale via info_mask_shared_by_type, so the IIO
core exposes in_accel_scale, but dmard09_read_raw() only handles
IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW; a SCALE read falls through to 'default: return
-EINVAL':

$ cat .../iio:deviceX/in_accel_scale
cat: in_accel_scale: Invalid argument

leaving userspace with raw counts it cannot convert to m/s^2.

The driver was written from a vendor source [1] without a datasheet, and
the scale was declared but never implemented. The vendor source carries
the sensitivity: its conversion is

acc = raw * GRAVITY_EARTH_1000 / sensitivity (then / 1000 -> m/s^2)

with sensitivity = 32 and GRAVITY_EARTH_1000 = 9807 ("about
(9.80665)*1000"), i.e. 32 counts correspond to 1 g.

That sensitivity applies to the value this driver already reports as raw.
The vendor processes each 16-bit sample as 'data >>= 3; data &= 0x1ff'
plus a sign-extend of bit 8 - a signed 9-bit quantity from register bits
[11:3] - and dmard09_read_raw()'s 'accel <<= 4; accel >>= 7' yields the
same value. It is self-consistent: 256 counts / 32 = 8 g full scale,
matching the part's +/-8g range.

Implement the scale derived from that sensitivity using standard gravity:

scale = 9.80665 / 32 = 0.3064578125 m/s^2 per LSB

[1] https://github.com/minstrelsy/mediatek/blob/1f49d8c87b839651bc89afc870277e8e0f2e2d55/custom/common/kernel/accelerometer/dmard09/dmard09.c

Fixes: a4fa6509dda4 ("iio: accel: add support for the Domintech DMARD09 3-axis accelerometer")
Signed-off-by: Mert Seftali <mertsftl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/accel/dmard09.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/dmard09.c b/drivers/iio/accel/dmard09.c
index fe35a1270786..a61943120d07 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/dmard09.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/dmard09.c
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
#define DMARD09_AXIS_Y_OFFSET ((DMARD09_AXIS_Y + 1) * 2)
#define DMARD09_AXIS_Z_OFFSET ((DMARD09_AXIS_Z + 1) * 2)

+/* Sensitivity is 32 LSB/g; scale = 9.80665 / 32 m/s^2 per LSB. */
+#define DMARD09_SCALE_NANO 306457813
+
struct dmard09_data {
struct i2c_client *client;
};
@@ -79,6 +82,10 @@ static int dmard09_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
*val = accel;

return IIO_VAL_INT;
+ case IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE:
+ *val = 0;
+ *val2 = DMARD09_SCALE_NANO;
+ return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_NANO;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
--
2.55.0