On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 05:38:26AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:36:32 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Negative temperatures were returned in degrees C instead of milli-Degrees C.
> > Fix by multiplying with 1000.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/hwmon/lm95241.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/lm95241.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm95241.c
> > index f2cfecf..d1bbdf8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm95241.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm95241.c
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct lm95241_data {
> > static int TempFromReg(u8 val_h, u8 val_l)
> > {
> > if (val_h & 0x80)
> > - return val_h - 0x100;
> > + return (val_h - 0x100) * 1000;
> > return val_h * 1000 + val_l * 1000 / 256;
> > }
> >
>
> The fix is needed but is it sufficient? How comes that positive
> temperatures would be returned with a sub-degree resolution and negative
> ones with 1°C resolution only? I don't see any such limitation in the
> datasheet.
>
Saw that too late. Good question.
> Also, negative values are really only 2's complement format so a simple
> cast should do (untested):
>
> s16 val_hl = (val_h << 8) | val_l;
> return val_hl * 1000 / 256;
>
Should be. I'll try to test it with the LM95231.
Guenter
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