Re: [PATCH 3/3] iio: light: stk3310: support the Sensortek STK36C61

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:04:23 +0200
Jorijn van der Graaf <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Sensortek STK36C61 is a 3-in-1 ambient light / proximity / RGB
> colour sensor (chip ID 0x95) found in the Fairphone 6. Its register
> interface is compatible with the feature set this driver uses: the
> STATE/FLAG bit layout, the data and threshold registers and the gain
> and integration-time fields, verified on that device (the ALS and
> proximity readings scale with their gain and integration-time fields,
> thresholds written through the event interface read back from the
> chip, and the FLAG near/far bit crosses with them). Add its chip ID to
> the known-ID list and the device table entries.
> 
> Whenever the ALS engine runs, the chip also measures four colour
> channels, laid out directly after the ALS data as 16-bit big-endian
> values in R (0x15), G (0x17), B (0x19), C (0x1B) order; the R, G and B
> assignments were each confirmed by the matching channel dominating
> under red, green and blue illumination, and clear by its broadband
> response. The ALS data register tracks the green channel exactly.
> There is no public datasheet and therefore no counts-to-physical
> mapping for the colour channels, so they are exposed as raw-only
> intensity channels; the gain field the scale attribute controls does
> not govern clear either.

Hmm. that's unusual.  If the green at least has known scale / integration
time (as it's used for ALS - dirty hack but a common one) maybe expose that.

I guess the controls for the other channels are in another register that
we don't know about.

Otherwise, this looks fine to me.

Jonathan

> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
> Signed-off-by: Jorijn van der Graaf <[email protected]>