From: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
Date: 14 Feb 2003 15:17:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045264651.13488.40.camel@vmhack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030214213542.GH23589@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:35, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > temperature (RO)
> > > > - show: prints temperature in degrees farenheit
> > >
> > > Please, use degrees celsius to keep it consistent with ACPI and
> > > lm-sensors.
> >
> > The ioctl interface is farenheit and has been since before Linux 2.0
> > That may not have been smart but we are stuck with it there at
> > least.
>
> Oops, that's bad.
>
> But I believe we should make it celsius in /sys, even if it means
> conversion somewhere.
>
> Pavel
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.
--rustyl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-14 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 3:16 [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 4:27 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-02-13 7:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 11:55 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 15:34 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 15:51 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:07 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 18:31 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-02-13 21:12 ` Scott Murray
2003-02-13 22:58 ` Matt Porter
2003-02-13 22:05 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 0:47 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 15:32 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 19:02 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-14 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:12 ` Joel Becker
2003-02-14 13:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-02-14 14:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-13 16:04 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-13 18:20 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 18:21 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-13 23:04 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-14 21:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-14 23:17 ` Rusty Lynch [this message]
2003-02-15 1:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-15 8:27 ` Cort Dougan
2003-02-15 9:13 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 21:03 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-15 20:37 ` John Bradford
2003-02-15 12:42 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-02-15 17:26 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-19 5:24 ` Rusty Lynch
2003-02-20 21:19 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-20 22:36 ` Alan Cox
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