On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:46, Jan Dittmer wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > True, but multi-valued files are not allowed in sysfs. It's especially > > obnoxious that you have 3 value files when you read them, but only > > expect 2 values for writing. The way I split up the values in the > > lm75.c driver shows a user exactly which values are writable, and > > enforces this on the file system level. > > Agreed, I never knew which of the three values had which functionality. > For via686a this would be inX, inX_min, inX_max, tempX, tempX_overshoot > (over = overshoot = os ?), tempX_hyst, and so on. > > > Entry Values Function > > ----- ------ -------- > > temp, > > temp[1-3] 3 Temperature max, min or hysteresis, and input value. > > Floating point values XXX.X or XXX.XX in degrees Celcius. > > If we're restructuring it, I think we should also agree on _one_ common > denominator for all values ie. mVolt and milli-Degree Celsius, so that > no userspace program ever again has know how to convert them to > user-readable values and every user can just cat the values and doesn't > have to wonder if it's centi-Volt, milli-Volt, centi-Degree, dezi-Degree > or whatever. > Right, can we just get this finalised soon ? Not much fun in redoing something 2 times already ;) Regards, -- Martin Schlemmer
