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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Fries <david@fries.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: W1: w1_slave units, standardize 1C or .001C?  Break API
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:12:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122211224.GA434@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080122210741.GB30938@2ka.mipt.ru>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:07:41AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 07:11:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com) wrote:
> > >Millikelvins would have the nice property of never being negative.  :)
> > >
> > 
> > Alternatively, centikelvins would fit nicely in 16 bits if anyone cares...
> > 
> > 655.35 K = 382.20 °C = 719.96 °F
> 
> I have no objection on adding new sysfs files which will return
> temperature relative to one on Mars or Venus :)

Even more, what about possibility of changing of the base, relative to
which temperature is displayed? By default I vote for centigrades,
those, who live behind the oceans, can setup Fahrenheit, Kelvin or anything
else, but please in a new file :)
David will this work for you?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-22 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-21 23:15 W1: w1_slave units, standardize 1C or .001C? Break API David Fries
2008-01-22  1:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22  3:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 21:07     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-01-22 21:12       ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-01-23  4:09     ` David Fries
2008-01-23  4:22       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-22 21:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-23  4:00 David Fries

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