[lm-sensors] [PATCH] AMD K8 digital sensor

[r.marek@sh.cvut.cz (Rudolf Marek)]

Hi Hans,


> I was thinking about doing things differently with regards to userspace.
> As I already posted to the list I'm working on a driver for the uGuru2.
> The driver is done (waiting for feedback from testers) but I still need
> todo userspace. Since the uGuru2 driver is going to be 2.6 only and
> since 2.6 has a clear API/ABI between userspace and the kernel for hwmon
> chips I was thinking about adding code to libsensors for generic 2.6
> support. The idea is to write a piece of code which will come into
> action only if libsensors doesn't have a chip definition for a found
> chip and libsensors is running on a  2.6 kernel. This piece of code
> would then fill a dynamicly allocated structure describing the unknown
> chip, using the same structure as for known chips.

Yes this is in long term plan.

> Does this sound like a plan With this in place we no longer need to
> write support for every new 2.6 hwmon driver, actually if this goes in I
> would like to see explicit support for the uGuru (1) be removed, since
> this generic code should do just as good of a job.

Yes.

There are still questions if to rewrite the libsensors and allow LGPL or change libsensors to what you propose.

> Does this sound like  a plan (for 2.6 only drivers) ? Or are you
> planning on porting this driver to 2.4?

No plan for 2.4.

I'm  leaving now for two weeks so please be patient with further answers from me.

Regards
Rudolf