From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:08:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] libsensors: Add support for humidity Message-Id: <20110210120810.GB24543@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: <20110210054256.GA23546@ericsson.com> In-Reply-To: <20110210054256.GA23546@ericsson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors