From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754718AbZBJIzp (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:55:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752509AbZBJIyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:54:47 -0500 Received: from intermatrixgroup.ru ([195.178.208.66]:41303 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070AbZBJIyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:54:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:54:37 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ian@beware.dropbear.id.au Subject: Re: [1/1] w1: w1 temp calculation overflow fix. Message-ID: <20090210085437.GA3513@ioremap.net> References: <20090209214217.GA14958@ioremap.net> <20090209135641.0367a71f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090209220830.GA15633@ioremap.net> <20090209144803.821aa33e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090209153125.04210608.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090209153125.04210608.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:31:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:48:03 -0800 > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > But we still don't have a _reason_. Presumably the bug causes the > > driver to malfunction in some manner. > > ah-hah. I discovered http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12646 > > Now all is revealed! Argh, I did not get that you need this description :) Yes, reading sysfs temperature file may return wrong (overflown) value. -- Evgeniy Polyakov