Hello Lars,

for the temperature data, the problem is that temperature in the FIFO (used in 
buffer) is not in the same format than when reading the register.

Reading the temperature register return a full precision value on 16 bits. I am 
using a PROCESSED attribute for it.
Temperature data in buffer (coming from the FIFO) is on 8 bits in lower 
precision. It is reported as raw data, thus the need of the offset and scale 
values.

So offset and scale values are only for transforming the temperature data from 
the buffer, and direct read is a full precision already processed in m°C.

Thanks for the review,
JB

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On 6/8/20 10:42 PM, Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol wrote:
> +     case IIO_CHAN_INFO_PROCESSED:
> +             ret = iio_device_claim_direct_mode(indio_dev);
> +             if (ret)
> +                     return ret;
> +             ret = inv_icm42600_temp_read(st, &temp);
> +             iio_device_release_direct_mode(indio_dev);
> +             if (ret)
> +                     return ret;
> +             *val = temp;
> +             return IIO_VAL_INT;
> +     case IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE:
> +             *val = 483;
> +             *val2 = 91787;
> +             return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO;
> +     case IIO_CHAN_INFO_OFFSET:
> +             *val = 25000;
> +             return IIO_VAL_INT;

If the data is returned processed there is no need to specify scale and 
offset.

But since the transformation to turn the data into standard units is a 
simple linear transform the preferred way to handle this is to return 
RAW data and specify scale and offset.

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