On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm quite confused. While I admit that the term "tachometer speed" is >> > awkward, the max6650 driver is reporting fan speeds in RPM as every >> > other hwmon driver. So I really have no idea what you think is wrong. >> > What did you think "tachometer speed" was, if not the fan speed? Does >> > the max6650 driver not return correct fan speeds for you? That is some strange behavior. If I do "echo 1 > pwm1_enable; echo 0 > pwm1; cat fan1_input", I still see 30 for the connected fan, whereas I can see it stopped. Is this an expected behavior? I would expect zero as a user. >> Better wording would have definitely helped in here. Fwiw, I asked >> another kernel hacker person who also got confused telling me that he >> would not know without reading the source code. I think that it is an >> indication to improve the documentation. There might be better >> alternatives than the one I am proposing, but at least that one clears >> up that for me. > > I agree. I think I would just go with "measured fan speed in RPM", as > tachometer is quite a technical term and the user doesn't need to know. > Care to send a patch? Hmm, yeah, perhaps. I can try to do that during the weekend. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
