Hi Martin, On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 08:29:40PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Guenter, > > > "scsi-8-140" is created by libsensors, so any change in that would > > have to be made there, not in the kernel driver. > > Yes. Something like the patch below which will produce actual SCSI > device instance names: > > drivetemp-scsi-7:0:29:0 > drivetemp-scsi-8:0:30:0 > drivetemp-scsi-8:0:15:0 > drivetemp-scsi-7:0:24:0 > > Instead of the current: > > drivetemp-scsi-7-1d0 > drivetemp-scsi-8-1e0 > drivetemp-scsi-8-f0 > drivetemp-scsi-7-180 > > Other question: Does hwmon have any notion of sensor topology? As I > mentioned earlier, SCSI installations typically rely on SAF-TE or SES > instead of the physical drive sensors. SES also includes monitoring of > fans, power supplies, etc. And more importantly, it provides a > representation of the location of a given component. E.g.: Tray number > #4, disk drive bay #5. > Please go ahead and submit the patch for libsensors. > So it would be helpful if libsensors had a way to represent sensors in a > way that mimics the physical device layout reported by SES. > I guess it would be up to you to come up with a proposal. Thanks, Guenter
