On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:20:20AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:42:56 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > This patch adds support for humidity sensors to libsensors. > > Maybe it's a little late to discuss this now that humidity[1-*]_input > is already described in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, but... do > humidity sensors really belong to the hardware monitoring framework? > What are the use cases of these sensors in practice? > > We let the accelerometer drivers slip in in the past (thankfully > without documenting their attributes), and now we have a hard time > getting them moved to the right place. I wouldn't want to do the same > mistake with humidity sensors. My feeling is that they don't belong to > hwmon. > The argument is that humidity is an environmental parameter which does affect system operation, and thus it does belong to the hwmon framework. I don't know what the existing/supported sensors are used for, but could well imagine one in an industrial computer used to ensure that the system isn't running in too much humidity. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
