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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: khali@linux-fr.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] adt7470: Check input range when sysfs files are written
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:49:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111004927.GO8668@plum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110162214.b8202b60.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:22:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> When writing changelogs, please explain _why_ a change was made, as
> well as what the change does.

Sorry about that.  Here's a revision:

Implement correct range checking for adt7470 to prevent userland from
writing impossible values into the chip, and cap out-of-range values per
standard hwmon conventions.

Implement correct rounding of input values per standard hwmon
conventions.

Is that better?

(Same goes for the adt7473 patch.)

> Looking at it, I guess it does change the userspace interface in minor
> ways, so we should merge it into 2.6.28.  Ditto
> adt7473-check-inputs-from-sysfs-writes.patch.  Agree?

Yes.

--D

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 18:56 [PATCH 0/5] Various hwmon patches Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-07 18:56 ` [PATCH 1/5] adt7462: New hwmon driver Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-07 19:04   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-11-07 19:27     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 19:34       ` Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-07 19:38     ` Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-07 19:18   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 18:56 ` [PATCH 2/5] i5k_amb: Load automatically on all 5000/5400 chipsets Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-08 11:09   ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-11  6:26     ` Greg KH
2008-11-07 18:56 ` [PATCH 3/5] adt7470: Check input range when sysfs files are written Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-11  0:22   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-11  0:49     ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2008-11-07 18:56 ` [PATCH 4/5] adt7473: Check inputs from sysfs writes Darrick J. Wong
2008-11-07 19:20   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 20:35     ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-07 20:49     ` Joe Perches
2008-11-07 21:00       ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-07 21:02         ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-07 18:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] lm85: Support adt7468 chips Darrick J. Wong

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