Re: [PATCH 4/5] max17042: Fix value scaling for VCELL and avgVCELL

[bruce robertson]

Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:26:07AM -0800, dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Bruce Robertson <bruce.e.robertson@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> The bottom three bits of the register are don't care bits.  The LSB
>> value is 625 uV.  Adjust the returned values appropriately
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bruce Robertson <bruce.e.robertson@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I guess this was fixed long ago by the following patch:
>
> commit cf7a8c03db792894f436db5f3ffc44d947b9b068
> Author: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Aug 17 10:18:34 2011 +0900
>
>     max17042_battery: Bugfix of incorrect voltage register value interpretation
>
>     The calculation had error in getting voltage values from
>     MAX17042 registers. The least bit denotes 78.125uV (625/8).

The multipliers I see in the patch are 83 making the voltages somewhat
high and the low 3 bits are not masked off. I'm probably misreading the code.

>
>     Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Philip Rakity <prakity@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
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