On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 19:23 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:15:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 09:07 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > Yes, I know about that one. It concluded that it would be too invasive > > > and risky to try to fix it without access to hardware to test the results. > > > That is why I said "fixes _most_ of the problems". > > > > > > As for why the attributes are created after registration, it was most likely > > > because there was no API available to attach the sysfs attributes to > > > the hwmon device in a clean way. The new APIs fix that. > > > > We don't attach them to the hwmon device either, and I would rather not > > change that yet because lm-sensors 2 is still widely used. > > Mouahahahah. > > No, seriously, it's not. RHEL 5 has it, and that is widely used - even with recent mainline kernels, in some cases. > And lm-sensors 2 doesn't even support your > device so this is a totally moot point. I thought it did work with arbitrary devices providing the right attributes, but obviously I misremembered. So there's no reason not to change. Thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
