Re: lm sensors sysfs file structure

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 01:10, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
> 

Silly w83781d again.  temp1 is a u8, and temp2 and temp3 is u16
(if they are supported on the specific model.

Should we do any bounds checking on input via sysfs ?


Regards,
-- 
Martin Schlemmer