On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:05:38PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:45:05 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > I do wonder what is going to happen with existing hwmon temperature sensor > > drivers which are needed as thermal drivers. Re-write/copy ? > > Have them register as thermal devices and leave their hwmon interface > unchanged? > > For simple temperature sensor devices, the current situation (expose > thermal devices as hwmon devices automatically) works well, but if a > more complex devices (with, say, voltage sensors) needs to be exposed > as a thermal device then it doesn't work. If we want to handle this > case, then I see no alternative to having each driver implement both > interfaces. > Ok, makes sense. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
