Hi! > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Um, that's what my proposal stated. Do you not agree with it? (You're > > > quoting the existing document above, not my proposed changes.) > > > > Well, you had cV for PSU voltages and > > mV for cpu core voltage. I guess mV > > and mili-deg-C everywhere would be > > nicer. > > I was trying to keep consistant with what the old /proc values were > reported as. I'll go fix that up. > > As for why no floating point, it's a pain in the but to both output a > fixed point number from the kernel into floating point, and to parse a > floating point number from userspace within the kernel, turning it into > a fixed point number. With the proposal I wrote up, none of that is > needed, and all userspace has to do is divide by a factor of 10 to get > the proper value. Okay, I did not realize it is input, too. Outputing reals is really easy; but parsing them. Okay, I guess I'm convinced. You should still use mili-something, not centi-something... Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
