0° Kelvin is actually −273.15°C, not -272.15°C. Fix the temperature offset.
Also improve the comment explaining the calculation.

Reported-by: Janusz Użycki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/iio/adc/mxs-lradc.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/mxs-lradc.c 
b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/mxs-lradc.c
index 3f7715c9968b..47fc00a3f63b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/mxs-lradc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/mxs-lradc.c
@@ -915,11 +915,12 @@ static int mxs_lradc_read_raw(struct iio_dev *iio_dev,
        case IIO_CHAN_INFO_OFFSET:
                if (chan->type == IIO_TEMP) {
                        /* The calculated value from the ADC is in Kelvin, we
-                        * want Celsius for hwmon so the offset is
-                        * -272.15 * scale
+                        * want Celsius for hwmon so the offset is -273.15
+                        * The offset is applied before scaling so it is
+                        * actually -213.15 * 4 / 1.012 = -1079.644268
                         */
-                       *val = -1075;
-                       *val2 = 691699;
+                       *val = -1079;
+                       *val2 = 644268;
 
                        return IIO_VAL_INT_PLUS_MICRO;
                }
-- 
2.1.4

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