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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>,
	Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch>,
	hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>,
	vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:59:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060705095906.bf61fef8.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060704235717.GD11872@elf.ucw.cz>

(Does this conversation really need to happen on 3 different mailing
lists at once?)

> > 3. Control of accelerometer parameters:
> >    3a. Report of accelerometer type (hdaps, ams, etc) and other metadata
> >        (name, location, what it is measuring (system accel, hd-bay 
> >        accel...))
> 
> Well, if your system is accelerating at different speed than hd-bay,
> then your machine is either _way_ too big, or you are in bad trouble.

Not necessarily. If the system is spinning, each point has its own
acceleration vector. Having two accelerometers in a system would be a
convenient way to detect that kind of movement, and I wouldn't be
surprised to see it happen.

-- 
Jean Delvare

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-05  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03 12:48 Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...) Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-07-04  7:59 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-04 10:26   ` [Hdaps-devel] " Shem Multinymous
2006-07-04 10:57     ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-04 15:02     ` Thomas Tuttle
2006-07-05  3:13     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-05  8:00     ` Johannes Berg
2006-07-05 14:06       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-07-04 16:23   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-07-04 23:57     ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-05  7:34       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-07-05 13:58         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2006-07-06  1:12           ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-05  7:59       ` Jean Delvare [this message]

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