Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add tempX_emergency to sysfs ABI

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
> ---
> tempX_emergency will be used by max6696. It can also be used for other chips
> supporting three upper temperature limits.
> 
>  Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
> index ff45d1f..1ceb2b9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
> +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
> @@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ temp[1-*]_crit_hyst
>  		from the critical value.
>  		RW
>  
> +temp[1-*]_emergency
> +		Temperature emergency value, typically greater than
> +		corresponding temp_crit values.
> +		Unit: millidegree Celsius
> +		RW
> +

If we have two-level alarms: critical, then emergency, it is best to have
that written down than to imply it by "typically greater than corresponding
temp_crit"...

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