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    SubjectRe: lm sensors sysfs file structure
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    On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:46, Jan Dittmer wrote:
    > Greg KH wrote:
    > > True, but multi-valued files are not allowed in sysfs. It's especially
    > > obnoxious that you have 3 value files when you read them, but only
    > > expect 2 values for writing. The way I split up the values in the
    > > lm75.c driver shows a user exactly which values are writable, and
    > > enforces this on the file system level.
    >
    > Agreed, I never knew which of the three values had which functionality.
    > For via686a this would be inX, inX_min, inX_max, tempX, tempX_overshoot
    > (over = overshoot = os ?), tempX_hyst, and so on.
    >
    > > Entry Values Function
    > > ----- ------ --------
    > > temp,
    > > temp[1-3] 3 Temperature max, min or hysteresis, and input value.
    > > Floating point values XXX.X or XXX.XX in degrees Celcius.
    >
    > If we're restructuring it, I think we should also agree on _one_ common
    > denominator for all values ie. mVolt and milli-Degree Celsius, so that
    > no userspace program ever again has know how to convert them to
    > user-readable values and every user can just cat the values and doesn't
    > have to wonder if it's centi-Volt, milli-Volt, centi-Degree, dezi-Degree
    > or whatever.
    >

    Right, can we just get this finalised soon ? Not much fun in redoing
    something 2 times already ;)


    Regards,

    --
    Martin Schlemmer


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