Re: 2.6 - sysfs sensor nameing inconsistency

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 07:38:47PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Saturday 16 August 2003 00:51, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:00:51PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > Attached is patch against 2.6.0-test1 that adds type_name to all in-tree
> > > sensors; it sets it to the same values as corr. 2.4 senors and (in one
> > > case) changes client name to match that of 2.4.
> > >
> > > Assuming this patch (or variant thereof) is accepted I can then produce
> > > libsensors patch that will easily reuse current sensors.conf. I have
> > > already done it for gkrellm and as Mandrake is going to include 2.6 in
> > > next release sensors support becomes more of an issue.
> >
> > I like this idea, but now that the name logic has changed in the i2c
> > code, care to re-do this patch?  Just set the name field instead of
> > creating a new file in sysfs.
> >
> 
> something like attached patch? I like it as well :)

Why rename local variables?  Your patch would be a lot smaller if you
just keep the same local name variable, and fix up the name strings.

> note that in 2.6.0-test3 name in sysfs is empty. I had to add a chunk to 
> i2c-core to at least test my patch. or may be I misunderstood how 
> client->name is used.

No, you are correct.  I've added the name info back in the -bk tree
right now.  Try 2.6.0-test3-bk4 for the proper usage.

thanks,

greg k-h