Hi all, The future libsensors assumes that all hardware monitoring drivers follow the standard sysfs interface defined in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. They all mostly do already, except for one thing: alarms. Most drivers are still only exposing a single file with all alarms in a bit-vector, in chip-dependent order. In order to let the new libsenors display the alarms properly, we must add individual alarm files to these drivers. For some drivers, fault and/or beep files need to be added too. Here's the current status, to the best of my knowledge. Already have individual alarm files: abituguru.c coretemp.c ds1621.c dme1737.c f71805f.c lm63.c lm83.c lm85.c lm90.c pc87427.c smsc47m192.c vt1211.c w83627ehf.c w83793.c Don't have alarms at all: ad7418.c adm1029.c ams applesmc.c atxp1.c hdaps.c k8temp.c lm70.c lm75.c max6650.c smsc47b397.c w83l785ts.c Need to be converted: adm1021.c adm1025.c adm1026.c adm1031.c adm9240.c asb100.c fscher.c fscpos.c gl518sm.c gl520sm.c it87.c lm77.c lm78.c lm80.c lm87.c lm92.c max1619.c pc87360.c sis5595.c smsc47m1.c via686a.c vt8231.c w83627hf.c w83781d.c w83791d.c w83792d.c As you can see, the list is quite long, so I need help. That's not a difficult job, but you need chip ship in question to test. How to add individual alarm files: * Read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, so that you know what are the valid names for individual alarm, fault and beep files. * Take a look at this patch which adds individual alarm support to 4 drivers: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d45771e6ea79f56a7d85e448f702f60ef86c228#patch2 * Do the same to your driver. To find out which alarm bit correspond to what, you can look at the defines used in the current version of libsensors: http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/branches/lm-sensors-3.0.0/kernel/include/sensors.h?rev=4473 Or you can look at the datasheet for your chip, but it's likely to take longer. * Test. You can test manually (change the limits and read the alarm files from sysfs) or you can use the next version of libsensors, which is in branch "lm-sensors-3.0.0" under SVN: svn checkout http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/branch/lm-sensors-3.0.0 lm-sensors-3 * Submit your patch to the lm-sensors list, I'll review it. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
