On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:25:14 -0400, Travis B. Sawyer wrote > Also: I'm working with a power supply that has i2c for an interface > to internal temperatures, faults, etc. Some fields within the i2c > registers for the device are ascii. Search the lm_sensors page I've > found nothing for ascii conversion for the /proc interface. Is > there anything? Granted this is a little odd in the use of > lm_sensors for this, but I was hoping.... There is no room for ASCII strings in the procfs interface (nor sysfs for that matter). However, you can always carry raw ASCII code values, and convert them back to a string in libsensors/sensors. Obviously the interface was not really meant for that, but it is still doable. This is what is done for the Sony Vaio EEPROMs, which contain the machine model name, serial number etc... You should take a look at the eeprom driver, and the eeprom part of libsensors and sensors (especially the vaio part) for an example of how this can be done. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/
