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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Proposal for a new watchdog interface using sysfs
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Hi!


> } > 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.
> } 
> } We do need to be sure they all agree about it however 8)
> 
> Just to make sure no-one is happy except physicists, I suggest Kelvin.  I
> also suggest we spell disk/disc as "disck".

Do I miss smiley around here?

Actually Kelvin is not such a bad idea, as deciKelvin is already used
by ACPI internally. It is converted to celsius before userspace sees
it, through.

									Pavel
-- 
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