From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:28:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [Patch]Adding_threshold_support_to_coretemp Message-Id: <20101217222811.GC13207@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:56:39PM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:10:17 +0530, R, Durgadoss wrote: > > > What is supposed to happen if this threshold is reached ? Does it mean "it is > > > too cold", > > > or does it mean "it is ok to turn off some of the cooling devices which were > > > turned on earlier" ? > > > > > > If it means "it is too cold", question is what the system is supposed to do > > > about it. > > > I am not sure if such a use would be of much value. > > > > > > If it means "it is no longer too hot", the atribute name should really be > > > temp1_max_threshold. > > > > It means "it is no longer too hot". So, shall change the name to _max_threshold. > > I'm fairly certain Guenter actually meant temp1_max_hyst, per > Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. > Definitely yes ... I must have been low on coffee or something :(. Thanks for correcting me. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors