Re: i5k_amb temp_mid replacement

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 07.10.21 um 18:30 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> On 10/7/21 7:20 AM, Armin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 02.10.21 um 16:04 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
>>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:13:53AM +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> while trying to convert i5k_temp to the new hwmon API to resolve
>>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208693,
>>>> i was asking myself whether or not temp_mid could be replaced with a
>>>> standard sysfs attribute?
>>>> Since afaik temp_mid and temp_max are both temperature limits, they
>>>> could potentially be replaced with
>>>> temp_max and temp_crit.
>>>>
>>> Quite likely. Unfortunately, the chipset documentation is not available
>>> to the public, so it is difficult to determine what those temperatures
>>> actually mean.
>>>
>>> Guenter
>> Darrick Wong says the chipset documentation would support such a change.
>> However, he fears that the changed meaning of tempX_max could confuse
>> userspace
>> programs.
>> But i think the current not using standard attribute names will confuse
>> even more
>> programms.
>
> I still don't know what temperature limits temp_mid and temp_max actually
> reflect, so I still can not really comment.
>
> Guenter
"Intel 6400/6402 Advanced Memory Buffer" seems to document that.