Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust Kelvin offset to match local implementation

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Len,

Sorry for the late reply.

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:52:04 -0400 (EDT), Len Brown wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rui,
> > 
> > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:44:14 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 21:03 +0800, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > The exact offset between Kelvin and degree Celsius is 273.15. However
> > > > ACPI handles temperature values with a single decimal place. As a
> > > > consequence, some implementations use an offset of 273.1 and others
> > > > use an offset of 273.2. Try to find out which one is being used, to
> > > > present the most accurate and visually appealing number.
> > > > 
> > > > Tested on a Sony Vaio PGC-GR214EP (which uses 273.1) and a Lenovo
> > > > Thinkpad T60p (which uses 273.2).
> > > Sounds reasonable.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> > 
> > Thanks. Is this patch queued for 2.6.30 somewhere?
> 
> it was, but I had a conflict between this an another and so I dropped this 
> one until I could look at it - which I havn't yet.  If you'd like to do
> it for me, rebase on top of the acpi test branch.

OK, I have rebased my patch against 2.6.29-git13 (which I seem to
understand contains the latest ACPI code), tested it and it looks OK.
I'll post the updated patch in a minute.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare