Re: [PATCH 1/4] hwmon: (coretemp) adding package thermal info support

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > But please keep in mind that libsensors applications are not notified
> > > when sysfs attributes come and go at runtime, nor when hwmon entries
> > > come and go. So in the end, hotplug needs a manual restart of all
> > > monitoring applications for now anyway.
> > 
> > That is a big bug in libsensors, which needs to be addressed anyway.
> 
> Let's not go dramatic. This isn't a "big bug". This is a missing
> feature. Anyone interested in that feature is welcome to contribute
> code to support their use case. Me, I'm not using CPU hot-plug, so I
> don't really care.

Ah, no.  What is annoying is that loading/removing modules, as well as
any hotplugabble sensors of any sort wound require application restart.

But if we're not holding down the kernel because libsensors has that
limitation right now, then I agree the bug isn't that big.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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