Hi Guenter, On Wed, 07 May 2014 05:10:58 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 05/07/2014 12:13 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Tue, 06 May 2014 06:32:15 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> Can we implement a similar approach to network devices and make hwmon > >> path names (ie the /sys/class/hwmon/XXX path name) configurable via udev ? > >> Might be worth exploring. > > > > This is one possibility indeed. The good thing is that libsensors makes > > no assumption on hwmon class device names, so we can change the names > > without breaking any application which uses libsensors. Scripts > > accessing sysfs directly may break though (pwmconfig would, for > > example.) > > > > We'll have to be careful when choosing the new names, and make sure > > there is no name space collision. Network interface renaming has caused > > a great deal of trouble out there. > > Agreed. I'll try to find some time to play with it. > > > Another approach, which I have in mind for quite some time already but > > could never find the time to implement, would be a small helper binary > > which would look-up hwmon devices by libsensors-like name (and the > > other way around too.) Scripts could use it to benefit from libsensors > > persistent names. > > Still needs that binary, though. I have a proof of concept ready, I'll post it in a minute. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
