Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:27:47 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: lm sensors sysfs file structure |
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:44:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Well, you had cV for PSU voltages and mV for cpu core voltage. I guess mV > > and mili-deg-C everywhere would be nicer. > As for why no floating point, it's a pain in the but to both output a > fixed point number from the kernel into floating point, and to parse a > floating point number from userspace within the kernel, turning it into > a fixed point number. With the proposal I wrote up, none of that is > needed, and all userspace has to do is divide by a factor of 10 to get > the proper value.
FWIW, I'm taking the same fixed-point millivolt approach with the sysfs overrides for cpufreq. Having similar things in sysfs exporting the same units seems to be a good idea.
Dave
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