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

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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 15:45:01 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Rudolf Marek <r.marek@...embler.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LM Sensors <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH-tip] x86: hwmon/k8temp.c Add support for 
 AMD 10H and 11H

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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