Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:24:05AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:52:46PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
>>> I've implemented this part:
>>>
>>> http://www.netbsd.org/~xtraeme/wpi_sensor.diff
>>>
>>> Let me know how it works.
>>
>> There's a sensor there, and it seems to change with use, but I'm not
>> sure the units or scale is sensible yet:
>
> ...and I'm not sure there is really any point in reporting the temperature 
> of the wifi interface in this way.  What is the user supposed to do about 
> it?
>
> This should be used only internally by the driver to make decisions about 
> how to configure the MAC / radio.
>

I agree with Jason. It is an internal state used to calibrate tx power. I
don't think we need to expose it to user, particulary in the case we don't
know exactly what it represents (it may be fahrenheit but there is no
evidence about it). The Linux driver written by Intel doesn't give more
information about it :(.

-- 
Arnaud Degroote
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