Hey Won, Yeah, it is. The problem lies in the fact that the floating point numbers must be mapped into their non-floating point equivalents when being written to firmware and some accuracy can be lost b/c of the reality of the range of numbers that can realistically be represented.
I have a note in the manpage about this. Do you think I should make it more clear? Or perhaps I need to put something in the tool to make it more apparent this can/will happen? Al On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 22:40 -0800, Won De Erick wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that when I changed the last digit of a threshold value, the new > value was not reflected when checking it out. > I did this to other sensor threshold values (those with a 0 or 00 last), and > same thing happened. Is this normal? > > # ipmi-sensors-config -c -e > 24_Processor1_Temp:Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold=75.000001 > # ipmi-sensors-config -o -S 24_Processor1_Temp > Section 24_Processor1_Temp > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Non_Critical_Threshold -5.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Critical_Threshold -10.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold 75.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Critical_Threshold 80.000000 > EndSection > > # ipmi-sensors-config -c -e > 24_Processor1_Temp:Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold=75.000010 > # ipmi-sensors-config -o -S 24_Processor1_Temp > Section 24_Processor1_Temp > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Non_Critical_Threshold -5.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Critical_Threshold -10.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold 75.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Critical_Threshold 80.000000 > EndSection > > # ipmi-sensors-config -c -e > 24_Processor1_Temp:Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold=75.000010 > # ipmi-sensors-config -o -S 24_Processor1_Temp > Section 24_Processor1_Temp > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Non_Critical_Threshold -5.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Critical_Threshold -10.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold 75.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Critical_Threshold 80.000000 > EndSection > > # ipmi-sensors-config -c -e > 24_Processor1_Temp:Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold=76.000010 > # ipmi-sensors-config -o -S 24_Processor1_Temp > Section 24_Processor1_Temp > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Non_Critical_Threshold -5.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Lower_Critical_Threshold -10.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Non_Critical_Threshold 76.000000 > ## Give valid input for sensor type = Temperature; units = degrees C > Upper_Critical_Threshold 80.000000 > EndSection > > > > Thanks, > > Won > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-devel mailing list > Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org > http:// lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel > -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
