Wow, only 4 hours before someone mentioned Kelvin, I think I lost a bet
with someone :)
Seriously, let the value go negative, no problem. As long as it isn't
floating point input which has to be parsed by the kernel. That's all I
care about.
> Getting temperature display into "top" would sure
> be nice, but not if that means requiring a library
> that almost nobody has installed. It's good to give
> apps a simple way to get CPU temperature, including
> per-CPU data for SMP systems when available.
libsensors is installed on almost all distros these days.
> Info about sensor quality would be good. For example,
> my CPU measures temperature in 4-degree increments
> and is not calibrated.
I doubt the kernel driver knows this information.
thanks,
greg k-h
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