Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:10:27 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: lm sensors sysfs file structure |
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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,
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