[lm-sensors] sensord and missing alarms
Ryan Underwood
nemesis at icequake.net
Fri Nov 17 19:58:50 CET 2006
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:30:30PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> > So in general, the alarms are useless and the application should simply
> > check the current value against the ranges always?
>
> In general, alarm flags work as intended and applications can use them.
> Only the W83781D causes trouble, and it's just bad luck that this is
> the chip you are using. So for the W83781D, yes, comparing the readings
> with the limit values is better.
What luck. Should it be considered a bug that W83781D has alarm
behavior inconsistent with the rest of the sensors?
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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>
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