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
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