Hi Michael, Please send patches to the lm-sensors mailing list. Any patch sent to me only is likely to get lost. On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:33:05 +0100, Michael Arndt wrote: > I am using Analog ADT7411 in an embedded project, where I mainly > use the internal temperature sensor. > > Now the internal temperature readings get pretty bad if the sensor > is powered for a couple of minutes, as it will heat itself up with > about 10mW of power. > > When the chip is powered down, it can do with about ~33uW of power, thus > reducing the heat-up. Entering the power-down mode automatically would > probably be the best thing, but we would need heuristics to decide when > to power down, so this patch just adds a new attribute, so the chip > can be manually powered down from sysfs. > > In my case it really helps to keep the chip cool. Please do not add a custom sysfs attribute for that. There is a nice standard power management framework, please use it. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
