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@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Kernel driver lis3lv02d
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Supported chips:
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- * STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL and LIS3LV02DQ
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+ * STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL, LIS3LV02DQ (12 bits precision)
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+ * STMicroelectronics LIS302DL, LIS3L02DQ, LIS331DL (8 bits)
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Authors:
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Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
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@@ -13,13 +14,12 @@ Authors:
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Description
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-This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP
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-laptops sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data
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-Protection System 3D" or "HP 3D DriveGuard". It detects automatically
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-laptops with this sensor. Known models (for now the HP 2133, nc6420,
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-nc2510, nc8510, nc84x0, nw9440 and nx9420) will have their axis
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-automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play
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-neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via
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+This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP laptops
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+sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or
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+"HP 3D DriveGuard". It detects automatically laptops with this sensor. Known
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+models (full list can be found in drivers/hwmon/hp_accel.c) will have their
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+axis automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play
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+neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via
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/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d.
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Sysfs attributes under /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/:
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@@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ
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This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing
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the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick.
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+On HP laptops, if the led infrastructure is activated, support for a led
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+indicating disk protection will be provided as /sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect.
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+
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Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that
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acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received
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from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and
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fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The
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result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful
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-read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit).
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+read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). See the hpfall.c
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+file for an example on using the device.
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Axes orientation
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@@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ the accelerometer are converted into a "standard" organisation of the axes
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* If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative
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If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an
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-email to the authors to add it to the database. When reporting a new
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+email to the maintainer to add it to the database. When reporting a new
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laptop, please include the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of
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/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position in these four cases.
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