Hi Len, Sorry for the late reply. On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:52:04 -0400 (EDT), Len Brown wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Hi Rui, > > > > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:44:14 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 21:03 +0800, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > The exact offset between Kelvin and degree Celsius is 273.15. However > > > > ACPI handles temperature values with a single decimal place. As a > > > > consequence, some implementations use an offset of 273.1 and others > > > > use an offset of 273.2. Try to find out which one is being used, to > > > > present the most accurate and visually appealing number. > > > > > > > > Tested on a Sony Vaio PGC-GR214EP (which uses 273.1) and a Lenovo > > > > Thinkpad T60p (which uses 273.2). > > > Sounds reasonable. > > > > > > Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Thanks. Is this patch queued for 2.6.30 somewhere? > > it was, but I had a conflict between this an another and so I dropped this > one until I could look at it - which I havn't yet. If you'd like to do > it for me, rebase on top of the acpi test branch. OK, I have rebased my patch against 2.6.29-git13 (which I seem to understand contains the latest ACPI code), tested it and it looks OK. I'll post the updated patch in a minute. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare -- 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
