On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:55:19AM -0300, Leandro de Marco wrote: > Hi. > > I am implementing a driver for the TMP512/513 temperature chip. > > It has a local temp sensor and 2/3 remote temp sensors. There is a hyst > setting, but this setting is unique and applies for all 3/4 sensors. I am > not sure what is the best way to represent this setting on sysfs. > > I read the instructions at Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, and tried > to find other drivers with only one global hyst value, but have found > nothing. > > My solution would be to create an attribute temp1_max_hyst, so it will be > listed as subfeature by the lm_sensors library, and explain in the > Documentation that it applies for all sensors. > Common solution is to provide the hyst attribute for all temperatures to which it applies, but make it writable for only one. There are several drivers using this approach. tmp401.c is an example, but there are others. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
