From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932310AbWGEH7K (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:59:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932378AbWGEH7K (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:59:10 -0400 Received: from smtp-103-wednesday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.103]:2320 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932310AbWGEH7J (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:59:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:59:06 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Pavel Machek Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Michael Hanselmann , hdaps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Stelian Pop , vojtech@suse.cz Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Generic interface for accelerometers (AMS, HDAPS, ...) Message-Id: <20060705095906.bf61fef8.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20060704235717.GD11872@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060703124823.GA18821@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20060704075950.GA13073@elf.ucw.cz> <20060704162346.GE9447@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20060704235717.GD11872@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (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