On 10/7/21 7:20 AM, Armin Wolf wrote:
Am 02.10.21 um 16:04 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:13:53AM +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:
Hello,
while trying to convert i5k_temp to the new hwmon API to resolve
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208693,
i was asking myself whether or not temp_mid could be replaced with a
standard sysfs attribute?
Since afaik temp_mid and temp_max are both temperature limits, they
could potentially be replaced with
temp_max and temp_crit.
Quite likely. Unfortunately, the chipset documentation is not available
to the public, so it is difficult to determine what those temperatures
actually mean.
Guenter
Darrick Wong says the chipset documentation would support such a change.
However, he fears that the changed meaning of tempX_max could confuse
userspace
programs.
But i think the current not using standard attribute names will confuse
even more
programms.
I still don't know what temperature limits temp_mid and temp_max actually
reflect, so I still can not really comment.
Guenter
