On Sun 2008-05-04 14:42:29, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 02 May 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Actually, just libsensors would, and the local admin can adjust it at > > > will using the config file. > > > > > > Nobody in userspace should be reading hwmon sysfs directly without the > > > use of libsensors. If they are, it is their bug, and it is unsupported > > > AFAIK. > > > > Hmm, that's an interesting ABI design. No, I do not think that's a > > good idea. > > That's how it is. The kernel drivers are to attempt to do their best to > give proper readings. But if they don't, the library can apply > arbritary user-configurable adjustments. > > I'd rather different attribute names like "raw_temp#" were used when the > adjustment thorugh libsensors is *required*, though. Yes, that would be nice. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
