Re: [PATCH 3/3] iio: cdc: add Texas Instruments FDC1004 driver

From: Victor Chernyakin

Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 02:23:13 EST


> There are sensors with that sort of level of precision, I'm just not
> convinced they are ever going to get there for capacitance sensors.
>
> The burden ends up on whether userspace code runs into any problems
> with high numbers of digits. I don't mind them being long if not.

This is a guess, but I imagine userspace code generally reads these values
with something like strtod(), which can handle an arbitary number
of digits, so I think it shouldn't cause issues.