From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lm sensors sysfs file structure
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:10:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030327231027.GC1687@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048806052.10675.4440.camel@cube>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Greg KH writes:
>
> > temp_max[1-3] Temperature max value.
> > Fixed point value in form XXXXX and
> > should be divided by
> > 100 to get degrees Celsius.
> > Read/Write value.
>
> Celsius can go negative, which may be yucky
> and hard to test. Kelvin generally doesn't
> suffer this problem. (yeah, yeah, quantum stuff...)
Wow, only 4 hours before someone mentioned Kelvin, I think I lost a bet
with someone :)
Seriously, let the value go negative, no problem. As long as it isn't
floating point input which has to be parsed by the kernel. That's all I
care about.
> Getting temperature display into "top" would sure
> be nice, but not if that means requiring a library
> that almost nobody has installed. It's good to give
> apps a simple way to get CPU temperature, including
> per-CPU data for SMP systems when available.
libsensors is installed on almost all distros these days.
> Info about sensor quality would be good. For example,
> my CPU measures temperature in 4-degree increments
> and is not calibrated.
I doubt the kernel driver knows this information.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-27 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-27 23:00 lm sensors sysfs file structure Albert Cahalan
2003-03-27 23:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-28 7:21 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-28 7:40 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-03 21:19 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 15:16 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-25 8:53 i2c driver changes for 2.5.66; adding w83781d support Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-25 17:56 ` Greg KH
2003-03-26 19:04 ` w83781d i2c driver updated for 2.5.66 (without sysfs support) Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-26 19:40 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-26 20:26 ` Greg KH
2003-03-26 22:26 ` Mark Studebaker
2003-03-26 22:52 ` lm sensors sysfs file structure Greg KH
2003-03-27 10:46 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 10:50 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-27 12:27 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 12:33 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-27 13:05 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 13:31 ` Jean Delvare
2003-03-27 17:16 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2003-03-27 17:25 ` Greg KH
2003-03-27 18:06 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 18:13 ` Greg KH
2003-03-30 19:23 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-01 6:44 ` Greg KH
2003-04-01 20:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-01 23:27 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-03 0:28 ` Greg KH
2003-04-03 10:49 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-03 18:43 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-03-27 18:40 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 18:52 ` Greg KH
2003-03-27 18:17 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-03-27 18:57 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 19:15 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-27 19:25 ` Greg KH
2003-03-27 19:42 ` Greg KH
2003-03-27 20:32 ` Jan Dittmer
2003-03-27 21:53 ` Greg KH
2003-03-27 22:23 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2003-03-28 6:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-03-28 18:34 ` Pavel Machek
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