On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > I plan to make rather important changes to the sysfs interface of I2C > chip drivers in Linux 2.6. The topic has already been discussed on the > lm_sensors mailing list, bug Greg KH suggested that I should explain my > intentions here too, so here I am. <snip> > THE PLAN > > I propose a three-step plan. > > 1* Change the base scheme (e.g. temp_min1 -> temp1_min). This is the > more important change (in the sense it affects all drivers and the > libsensors library) and correspond to the second problem listed above. > > 2* Change the hysteresis names (temp1_hyst -> temp1_max_hyst). Only some > drivers are impacted. Changes required to the library as well. > > 3* Add splitted alarm files. This doesn't break the interface (these are > new files), but on the other hand needs that we think about it a bit > more so that our choices are extendable and correct for all known > drivers. > > Comments welcome (or even requested, according to the subject line). I would like to further suggest the renaming of 'sensor<n>' to 'temp<n>_sensor' or 'temp<n>_type', in the interest of being consistent. -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <warp at babylon.d2dc.net> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. Perl == Being -- Descartes (paraphrased). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20040221/05d45078/attachment.bin
