On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 02:43:15 PM Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:48:43AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 05:47:56 am R, Durgadoss wrote: > ... > > > I don't remember the details, but one thing for sure if that you can't > > > change the format of existing attributes the hwmon subsystem (and > > > libsensors) is using. These are standardized per > > > Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, so they can't be changed. But there > > > is no problem with registering a second class device with the thermal > > > subsystem and adding whatever attributes you want to have there. > > > > > A secondary problem is that thermal subsystem drivers register themselves > > with the hwmon subsystem - at least if CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON is defined. > > So it doesn't really make much sense for a driver to register itself > > as thermal driver _and_ as hwmon driver, since it may end up being listed > > twice as hwmon device. > Having a very quick look at coretemp, this one only provides thermal data, > right? > So it should register as a thermal driver which in turn tells userspace > that lsmsensors can retrieve data from it. > The data would then get exported via: > /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/ > and the whole platform code can get removed. > That would be an option. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
