From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stian Jordet Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:58:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] ipmisensors almost working... Message-Id: <487C90D2.8090808@jordet.net> List-Id: References: <4705ED70.6080206@jordet.net> In-Reply-To: <4705ED70.6080206@jordet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Yani Ioannou skrev: > Hi Stian, > > The reason I haven't merged ipmisensors into the kernel yet is this > exactly, on some BMCs the code to convert sensor readings into human > readable forms is just not working - this is practically the only code > left over from bmcsensors and I began re-writing it a few months ago > but got busy with other stuff. I'd like to start that again though, so > perhaps you could help ne test the new code when it is finished? > > There are in fact some sensors we may never be able to convert > completely in the kernel - they require complex transformations > involving logarithms. etc, that kernel code simply can't (and > shouldn't) calculate, so I think the real solution to this will have > to involve userspace support. > For now could you list the results from lmsensors and ipmitool so they > can be compared? > Hi, Yani. I guess you have given up/lost interest in this project. But I still wanted to give it a shot and hear if you were planning trying to make it work one last time ;) Have a nice summer! Regards, Stian _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors