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authorPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>2009-02-18 14:48:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-18 15:37:54 -0800
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hp accelerometer: add freefall detection
This adds freefall handling to hp_accel driver. According to HP, it should just work, without us having to set the chip up by hand. hpfall.c is example .c program that parks the disk when accelerometer detects free fall. It should work; for now, it uses fixed 20seconds protection period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ
This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing
the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick.
+Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that
+acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received
+from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and
+fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The
+result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful
+read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit).
+
+
Axes orientation
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