On 15/01/2020 14:45, Niklas Söderlund wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for your feedback. > > On 2020-01-15 14:24:30 +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> On 14/01/2020 23:29, Niklas Söderlund wrote: >>> The hardware manual states that the operation of the sensor is not >>> guaranteed outside the range of -40°C to 125°C, not that the readings >>> are invalid. Remove the bound check and try to deliver temperature >>> readings even if we are outside the guaranteed operation range. >> >> And what if the sensor is returning crap in this out-of-range operation? > > I'm not sure what is worse, reporting an untrue (but still outside the > guaranteed operation range) extreme temperature or failing with -EIO. > The view of the hardware guys is that it's better to report what the > sensor indicates then to return -EIO. I don't get the point. What happens if we read the sensor while it is above or below the limits? [ ... ] -- <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook | <http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter | <http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog
