Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a proposed patch to make libsensors no longer depend on > libsysfs. Instead, it accesses sysfs directly, using 3 embedded helper > functions. My motivations for doing this are: > * As far as I know, libsysfs is no longer maintained. > * libsysfs does much more than we need. For example, when asking for a > device attribute list, libsysfs will read the contents and permissions > of all attributes. Not only does this waste CPU cycles per se, but in > the case of hwmon driver it also triggers register reads, which can be > slow for SMBus chips. > * libsysfs enforces the difference between devices and class devices, > while future changes will be easier if we can handle both types alike. > Good work! I'm afraid I don't have the time to review this atm though, any other takers? Regards, Hans
