On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:27 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Henrique, > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:20:24 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I am working on a conversion of ibm-acpi to sysfs, and in the process I am > > trying to do away with every non-generic interface I can. At least two > > ibm-acpi interfaces map directly to hwmon/lm-sensors style: fan and thermal. > > I'd like to expose them as hwmon attributes, using the hwmon generic > > interfaces for fan control and thermal sensor readings. > > This would be really great. I was thinking about doing the same for the > standard ACPI "fan" and "thermal" modules too, but I happen to be too > busy for that :( Making these drivers compatible with the hwmon > interface is one way to solve the ACPI vs. hwmon issues which have been > reported and discussed lately. > The standard ACPI "fan" and "thermal" modules? I'm converting these two modules to sysfs. I think "thermal" has too much ACPI specific information and is not that easy to have a generic interface. Could you give some more detailed descriptions please? :) Thanks, Rui
