From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:43:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:43:33 -0400 Received: from innominate.intercity.it ([151.39.132.18]:30964 "HELO ashland") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:43:17 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: gurre@start.no (Harald Arnesen), jamagallon@able.es (J . A . Magallon), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: temperature standard - global config option? In-Reply-To: From: davidw@apache.org (David N. Welton) Date: 07 Jun 2001 12:43:12 +0200 Message-ID: <874rtsmuyn.fsf@apache.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox writes: > > Absolutely. We chide Microsoft for not following standards, so we > > should definitely follow the SI standards, which are much firmer > > than any internet standards. > /dev/temperature is in farenheit. It was specified by someone in the > UK several years ago and we are stuck with it that way really. So it is not possible to have an 'opt-in' kernel config (or sysctl, I suppose) option (default is off) that allows you to say "ok, on this box, everything is going to be in Fahrenheit/Celsius/Kelvin"? It would be something that the admin decides to turn on, hopefully conscious of the fact that this may entail other changes. > Newer API's should probably use celcius/kelvin My thought was that it would be nice to be able to configure this, so that one could work with the units one is most comfortable with. 104 Fahrenheit tells *me* a lot more than 313 Kelvin. Maybe Elbonians are more comfortable working with Kelvin. Well, anyway, it was just an idea that popped into my head when looking around, I'll step aside and let you guys figure out what is best:-) (Please do keep me CC'ed though). Thankyou for your time, -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/