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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
From: Rusty Lynch <rusty@linux.co.intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:35, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > temperature (RO)
> > > >   - show: prints temperature in degrees farenheit
> > > 
> > > Please, use degrees celsius to keep it consistent with ACPI and
> > > lm-sensors.
> > 
> > The ioctl interface is farenheit and has been since before Linux 2.0
> > That may not have been smart but we are stuck with it there at
> > least.
> 
> Oops, that's bad.
> 
> But I believe we should make it celsius in /sys, even if it means
> conversion somewhere.
> 
> 								Pavel

The watchdog infrastructure would just show what ever integer the driver
provides via the watchdog_ops.get_temperature() function pointer, so it
would be up to the driver developer to decide if the data is really
Fahrenheit or whatever.

    --rustyl 

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