On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 16:30 -0500, Max Ruttenberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I have two compute nodes on a machine that are both running embedded > Linux. The nodes are connected to each other over Ethernet. > > The both have an i2c bus. Node A has a thermal sensor. Node B has > three fans. > > Right now I have a user space application running on node B that uses > ssh to read from node A's thermal sensor and then adjust the fan > speeds accordingly. I am wondering if there's away instead to have a > hwmon driver running on Node B for the thermal monitor running on > node > A. This way I could get rid of the user space application and replace > it with something a little bit more standard like thermald. > > Is this something that people have done? Maybe if not this > specifically, how about a driver for a device over the network? The "standard" way of doing something like this seems to be to have a daemon on node A, which forwards data to a daemon on node B, which pretends to be a bus on node B. Look at the fuse user space file system for an example of this. -- All Rights Reversed.
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