On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:53 -0500, Phil Pokorny wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Guenter Roeck > <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think a better location for the driver would be drivers/thermal. > > drivers/hwmon is not really a good fit, since hwmon support for thermal > > drivers is optional. Potential problem with drivers/thermal is that > > there are no thermal drivers in there (yet), and there does not seem to > > be a maintainer. > > What is the difference between a "thermal" sensor and a "temperature" > sensor? Aren't they the same thing? > The thermal framework is much more extensive than the hwmon framework. See Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt for details. > Why does drivers/thermal exist if there are no drivers in it and no maintainer? > The framework resides there. Drivers supporting it are in various platform directories. As for why there are no drivers - only the framework - in drivers/thermal, and why there is no maintainer - no idea. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
