thanks for the explanation.
I want to ask the sensors team if they have comments on this approach,
and see if we have any volunteers to test and apply this patch and
work with Danny on enhancements.
Greg - is this the correct way to find sysfs?
Danny Backx wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 03:12, Mark Studebaker wrote:
> > so you have 'sensors' working on 2.6?
>
> Yes
>
> > I'm having trouble understanding what you did from looking at the diff.
> > Could you explain if this is a general fix compatible for both 2.4 and
> > 2.6 or is there much more to do...
>
> I saw several things that needed to be ported, I'll explain
> what I did and did not do.
>
> The background is that I really don't know much about your code,
> and I didn't take much time to learn about it (wrong, I know:-))
> but I got much of the 2.4->2.6 port done. The parts not done,
> or that need review, are the parts where knowledge of the
> sensors code is needed.
>
> 1. #define SENSORS_SYSFS
> I believe I've hidden my changes in #ifdefs based on that
> symbol.
> 2. /proc vs. sysfs
> I built code to look for the sysfs mount point (by reading
> /proc/mounts) and locate the right directory to read
> sensor data. This is all in sensors_read_proc_chips().
>
> On my system it locates /sys/bus/i2c/devices, sees that
> there's an entry 0-0290 in there (a symlink to a directory),
> in which it can find a file called "name" that contains
> the string "w83627hf" which is obviously my sensor chip.
> A small hack in the code is then to add "-*" to that
> string so it survives the sensors_parse_chip_name()
> function. You'll want to review this.
>
> Still in sensors_read_proc_chips(), I've stored the
> complete directory name that I found (e.g.
> /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290) in the entry.name.busname
> field so I don't have to dig up all this info later on.
> This is visible in the first line of the output of
> sensors which displays that field. (See the sample
> output below.)
>
> 3. I've duplicated some of the macros such as
> add_sys_chips() (was add_proc_chips). Not sure
> if this is useful. Also some duplicated structures
> like sensors_sys_chips_entry (sensors_proc_chips_entry).
> Again, please review.
>
> 4. In lib/access.c all the compares between sensor chip
> names were case sensitive. That made it fail for me.
> Changed all the calls of strcmp to strcasecmp for
> this reason.
>
> 5. Didn't know what to do with bus types. E.g. the
> function sensors_chip_name_has_wildcards() seemed to
> work on that so I disabled that check. Needs review.
>
> Similar for sensors_get_adapter_name() and
> sensors_get_algorithm_name() where I didn't understand
> what this should do so I basically disabled this
> by something like
>
> const char *sensors_get_adapter_name(int bus_nr)
> {
> + #ifdef SENSORS_SYSFS
> + return "Dummy adapter";
> + #else
> int i;
> if (bus_nr == SENSORS_CHIP_NAME_BUS_ISA)
>
> 6. The file names in /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290 were
> different than the ones described in lib/chips.c so
> I changed some of them *for my adapter*. The files
> I see are called in_max0 etc where the code expected
> in0_max. I assume this is incompatibility between the
> code in kernel 2.6 and previous versions.
>
> That's all, I think.
>
> There are obvious problems with what I did in that the
> temperature sensors give strange results - see below.
>
> But as I said I really don't understand all this code so
> I didn't feel like going after that.
>
> Is this making sense ? Are there other things I can do ?
>
> Danny
>
> > thanks
> > mds
>
> Sample output :
> w83627hf-i2c-/sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0290
> Adapter: Dummy adapter
> Algorithm: Dummy algorithm
> in_input0:+14.40 V (min = +12.16 V, max = +14.88 V)
> in_input1:+24.48 V (min = +12.16 V, max = +14.88 V)
> in_input2:+33.28 V (min = +29.76 V, max = +36.32 V)
> in_input3:+29.92 V (min = +26.88 V, max = +32.64 V)
> in_input4:+31.52 V (min = +28.48 V, max = +34.56 V)
> in_input5:+12.16 V (min = +3.36 V, max = +7.84 V)
> in_input6:+15.04 V (min = +7.04 V, max = +10.24 V)
> in_input7:+32.80 V (min = +26.88 V, max = +32.64 V) ALARM
> in_input8:+32.96 V (min = +27.04 V, max = +32.96 V)
> fan_input1:
> 1622 RPM (min = 187 RPM, div = 32)
> fan_input2:
> 2481 RPM (min = 187 RPM, div = 32)
> fan_input3:
> 0 RPM (min = 375 RPM, div = 16)
> temp_input1:
> +370??C (limit = +0??C, hysteresis = +0??C) sensor =
> thermistor
> temp_input2:
> +450.0??C (limit = +0??C, hysteresis = +0??C) sensor =
> PII/Celeron diode
> temp_input3:
> +2080.0??C (limit = +0??C, hysteresis = +0??C) sensor =
> thermistor
> vid: +1.350 V
> alarms:
> beep_enable:
> Sound alarm disabled
