diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
index 17aeea170566..2a5fa9a436e5 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c
@@ -111,8 +111,14 @@ static const int mma8452_samp_freq[8][2] = {
 	{6, 250000}, {1, 560000}
 };
 
+/* 
+ * Hardware has fullscale of -2G, -4G, -8G corresponding to raw value -2048
+ * The userspace interface uses m/s^2 and we declare micro units
+ * So scale factor is given by:
+ * 	g * N * 1000000 / 2048 for N = 2, 4, 8 and g=9.80665
+ */
 static const int mma8452_scales[3][2] = {
-	{0, 977}, {0, 1953}, {0, 3906}
+	{0, 9577}, {0, 19154}, {0, 38307}
 };
 
 static ssize_t mma8452_show_samp_freq_avail(struct device *dev,