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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] libsensors: Add support for humidity
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:08:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210120810.GB24543@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110210054256.GA23546@ericsson.com>

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:20:20AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:42:56 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > This patch adds support for humidity sensors to libsensors.
> 
> Maybe it's a little late to discuss this now that humidity[1-*]_input
> is already described in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, but... do
> humidity sensors really belong to the hardware monitoring framework?
> What are the use cases of these sensors in practice?
> 
> We let the accelerometer drivers slip in in the past (thankfully
> without documenting their attributes), and now we have a hard time
> getting them moved to the right place. I wouldn't want to do the same
> mistake with humidity sensors. My feeling is that they don't belong to
> hwmon.
> 
The argument is that humidity is an environmental parameter which does
affect system operation, and thus it does belong to the hwmon framework.
I don't know what the existing/supported sensors are used for, but could
well imagine one in an industrial computer used to ensure that the system
isn't running in too much humidity.

Thanks,
Guenter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10  5:42 [lm-sensors] [PATCH] libsensors: Add support for humidity sensors Guenter Roeck
2011-02-10  8:20 ` [lm-sensors] [PATCH] libsensors: Add support for humidity Jean Delvare
2011-02-10 12:08 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2011-02-11 18:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-02-12  8:44 ` Jean Delvare

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