All comments welcomed David, thanks. I actually agree and I'll go through and rename the ones that already have established names. It does make sense in the larger picture. george > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hubbard [mailto:david.c.hubbard at gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:44 PM > To: George T. Joseph (development); Rudolf Marek; LM Sensors > Subject: Re: Working on a driver for the > Andigilog aSC7621 > > Hi George, > > I'm the developer for the w83627ehf driver, which has many of the same > features as the Andigilog chips. So I don't have any influence in this > discussion, but I'll chime in and you can ignore me if you want. > > > I followed the naming conventions where I could but chose to use > > the data sheet's names where there was nothing close or that made > > sense. I can change some of them if you want. > > I think there are some important standards for user space tools, > including temp1_auto_point1_pwm. Okay, maybe you picked a bad example. > But most hardware monitoring chips are going to implement the same set > of features in different ways. For example, the auto point for temp1. > Since some drivers already export this file and other drivers (like > mine) which have the functionality will export it soon (because I'm > slow) -- it becomes much easier to write a generic tool in user space, > like the pwmconfig script. > > Just my two cents. > > David >
