Is it required that regulator sensors implement threshold interfaces?

[Shawn McCarney]

Hi Ed.  Thanks for the information and feedback.

On 9/26/2019 3:07 PM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> For some implementations, these are used to appropriately scale the SDR,
> and provide the redfish interfaces for those properties.

What is SDR?  Sorry I'm not familiar with that acronym.

> I'm not really following why you wouldn't want to implement
> those.

The problem is one of scale.  Some of the systems where my application 
will run may have 30+ voltage rails.  30 rails * 9 sensors per rail = 
270 MinValues and MaxValues.  I'd rather not ask the hardware engineers 
to provide 540 data values unless absolutely necessary.

>    They don't have to be exact, and there are plenty of cases where
> they are set to INT8_MAX and INT8_MIN.  Usually you will know based on
> the spec you're implementing if the values fall into a
> uint8/int8/int16/uint16 range, and you can just put in the specified
> range limits.

That's probably a better approach that setting both min and max to 0.  I 
was just wondering if anything (especially IPMI) would break if I set 
all the sensor min/max values to INT16_MIN/INT16_MAX.

Thanks!

Shawn