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 <rydb...@euromail.se> > ---
Applied to -next. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
