Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:13:56 +0000 (GMT) |
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> } > The watchdog infrastructure would just show what ever integer the driver > } > provides via the watchdog_ops.get_temperature() function pointer, so it > } > would be up to the driver developer to decide if the data is really > } > Fahrenheit or whatever. > } > } We do need to be sure they all agree about it however 8) > > Just to make sure no-one is happy except physicists, I suggest > Kelvin.
Degrees C is the best choice, because the range of values that fit in to a signed int is then useful (-127 -> 128). Storing as K or F means that you can't store a useful range in a single byte.
> I also suggest we spell disk/disc as "disck".
Magnetic media -> disk Optical media -> disc Combination media, (magneto-optical) -> disk
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