Re: i5k_amb temp_mid replacement

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

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.