From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:26:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:26:45 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:48846 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:26:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:26:27 +0200 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Alan Cox Cc: "David N . Welton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: temperature standard - global config option? Message-ID: <20010606212627.G1565@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <87snhdvln9.fsf@apache.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 21:08:17 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06.06 Alan Cox wrote: > > notice that in some places, Fahrenheit is used, and in some places, > > Celsius. It would seem logical to me to have a global config option, > > so that you *know* that you talk devices either in F or C. > > The spec is farenheit Kernel is worldwide, should not use anlo-saxon shifted units. Use the International System of Units (SI) http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html Temperature measures in kelvins. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.5-ac9 #1 SMP Wed Jun 6 09:57:46 CEST 2001 i686