On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:18:10AM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > There are many userland reports of sensors with unreasonably small and > large temperatures. There seem to be several reasons for this: > > Firstly, the major sensor type (sp78) is actually a signed number. > This explains why some sensors show very small or large values - they > are in fact all small, but of different sign. > > Secondly, the other sensor type (1-hex) is not properly understood; it > may be that it is not a temperature after all. > > Thirdly, some sensors are differential in nature, showing changes over > time rather than absolute numbers. This explains why those values are > small and of varying sign. > > This patch interprets the sp78 type as signed short, but keeps the > original scaling. For other types, -EINVAL is returned, since the > nature of those sensors is unknown. > > Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Applied to -next. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
