Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add support for AMD 10H and 11H

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Mon May 25 2009 - 09:46:12 EST


Hi Jaswinder,

On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:48 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Atleast something is better than nothing ;-)

Sorry but you are wrong here. When it comes to hardware monitoring (or
monitoring in general), potentially wrong data is _worse_ than no data
at all, unless you additionally carry the information that the data
value may be wrong, and display it in a very visible manner. As our
sysfs interface doesn't provide any way to pass reliability information
to the reader (and I don't think it would make sense to add one), it is
better to not export data that we know can't be trusted.

--
Jean Delvare
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