From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:45:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add support for Message-Id: <20090525154501.3f251a23@hyperion.delvare> List-Id: References: <1242979484.8796.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A165F67.3020005@assembler.cz> <1242981748.10642.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1242984648.16532.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1242984648.16532.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: Rudolf Marek , Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , LKML , LM Sensors Hi Jaswinder, On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:48 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Atleast something is better than nothing ;-) Sorry but you are wrong here. When it comes to hardware monitoring (or monitoring in general), potentially wrong data is _worse_ than no data at all, unless you additionally carry the information that the data value may be wrong, and display it in a very visible manner. As our sysfs interface doesn't provide any way to pass reliability information to the reader (and I don't think it would make sense to add one), it is better to not export data that we know can't be trusted. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752192AbZEYNqJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 09:46:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751734AbZEYNp5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 09:45:57 -0400 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:17011 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751905AbZEYNp4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 May 2009 09:45:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:45:01 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Cc: Rudolf Marek , Ingo Molnar , x86 maintainers , LKML , LM Sensors Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add support for AMD 10H and 11H Message-ID: <20090525154501.3f251a23@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <1242984648.16532.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1242979484.8796.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4A165F67.3020005@assembler.cz> <1242981748.10642.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1242984648.16532.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jaswinder, On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:48 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > Atleast something is better than nothing ;-) Sorry but you are wrong here. When it comes to hardware monitoring (or monitoring in general), potentially wrong data is _worse_ than no data at all, unless you additionally carry the information that the data value may be wrong, and display it in a very visible manner. As our sysfs interface doesn't provide any way to pass reliability information to the reader (and I don't think it would make sense to add one), it is better to not export data that we know can't be trusted. -- Jean Delvare