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Mark D. Studebaker
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patch from Christian Zuckschwerdt:
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Mark D. Studebaker wrote:
> I looked at the patch and I see there are separate
> /proc entries for the 9 and 12 bit outputs.
> Why not just make the 12 bit output the only output using "temp"??
> I don't understand the need for all the new /proc entries,
> except perhaps for debugging inside #ifdef DEBUG.
> Would you or Jan be willing to develop a patch that way?
> I'm all for increased accuracy as a standard feature - why not?
Ok. I rewrote the patch to support standard (9bit) and enhanced (12bit)
accuracy via the "temp" entry. The "raw" interface is also gone.
There are some quirks needed for the sensors app. It seems that
prog/sensors/chips.c fixes the output to %+3.1f
Thats not good for 12bit mode which gives you 2 decimals and therefor
wrong scaling.
Precision is .062 with 12bit (4 decimal bits) instead of .5 with 9bit (1
decimal bit). That way 2 decimals seem a natural choice.
On the other hand I see no obvious reason not to fix decimals to 1...
I'm lost there -- suggestions anyone?
Another problem is that 12bit is slow and laggy. I don't recommend making
it the default mode.
cu.
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Christian
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1145 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0