Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading -> temperature conversion

2012-08-13 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:57:03PM +0530, Bitan Biswas wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > Thank you for the guidance. > > >> > >>But looking at the hwmon linux documentation, seems the sensor > >>kernel drivers should report only raw readings. > >>The raw readings can be converted into required output, >

Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading -> temperature conversion

2012-08-13 Thread Bitan Biswas
Hi Guenter, Thank you for the guidance. But looking at the hwmon linux documentation, seems the sensor kernel drivers should report only raw readings. The raw readings can be converted into required output, e.g. temperature in this case, by respective user space implementation. "raw" means

Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading - temperature conversion

2012-08-13 Thread Bitan Biswas
Hi Guenter, Thank you for the guidance. But looking at the hwmon linux documentation, seems the sensor kernel drivers should report only raw readings. The raw readings can be converted into required output, e.g. temperature in this case, by respective user space implementation. raw means

Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading - temperature conversion

2012-08-13 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:57:03PM +0530, Bitan Biswas wrote: Hi Guenter, Thank you for the guidance. But looking at the hwmon linux documentation, seems the sensor kernel drivers should report only raw readings. The raw readings can be converted into required output, e.g. temperature

Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading -> temperature conversion

2012-08-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:48:14PM +0530, Bitan Biswas wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question related to hwmon driver and need suggestions. > > I am working on a temperature sensor driver that is hwmon driver. > - The temperature is calculated from raw sensor reading and > certain initialization

Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon : raw reading - temperature conversion

2012-08-10 Thread Guenter Roeck
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 07:48:14PM +0530, Bitan Biswas wrote: Hi, I have a question related to hwmon driver and need suggestions. I am working on a temperature sensor driver that is hwmon driver. - The temperature is calculated from raw sensor reading and certain initialization