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From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, trenn@suse.de,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Conversion of ACPI fan+thermal to hwmon sysfs
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:13:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EFEFEF.50802@hhs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173346084.10227.136.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:13 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> My original idea was to simply add a read-only hwmon-like interface to
>> the acpi fan and thermal modules. I didn't plan to replace the current
>> interfaces offered by these modules, at least not directly. There must
>> be many user-space tools and scripts relying on these at the moment, so
>> we need a transition period anyway.
>>
> Agree.
> I've already finished the patch to duplicate ACPI procfs function in
> sysfs, i.e. export the similar information while in sysfs style. And I
> think this can make it not so painful for use-space tools and scripts to
> convert to sysfs interface.
> Oh, a _read-only_ interface? Then, it will be much easier.
> But what is it used for?
> 

For libsensors using applications like sensors, gkrellm and ksensors to display 
temp and fan info?

Regards,

Hans


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From: j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl (Hans de Goede)
To: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, trenn@suse.de,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] Conversion of ACPI fan+thermal to hwmon sysfs
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:13:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EFEFEF.50802@hhs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173346084.10227.136.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:13 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> My original idea was to simply add a read-only hwmon-like interface to
>> the acpi fan and thermal modules. I didn't plan to replace the current
>> interfaces offered by these modules, at least not directly. There must
>> be many user-space tools and scripts relying on these at the moment, so
>> we need a transition period anyway.
>>
> Agree.
> I've already finished the patch to duplicate ACPI procfs function in
> sysfs, i.e. export the similar information while in sysfs style. And I
> think this can make it not so painful for use-space tools and scripts to
> convert to sysfs interface.
> Oh, a _read-only_ interface? Then, it will be much easier.
> But what is it used for?
> 

For libsensors using applications like sensors, gkrellm and ksensors to display 
temp and fan info?

Regards,

Hans



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-24 18:20 RFC: conversion of ibm-acpi to hwmon sysfs Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-24 18:20 ` [lm-sensors] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-26 16:27 ` Jean Delvare
2007-02-26 16:27   ` Jean Delvare
2007-02-28  9:31   ` Zhang Rui
2007-02-28  9:31     ` Zhang Rui
2007-02-28 14:34     ` Conversion of ACPI fan+thermal " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-28 14:34       ` [lm-sensors] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-01  9:37       ` Zhang Rui
2007-03-02  1:12       ` Zhang Rui
2007-03-02  1:12         ` [lm-sensors] " Zhang Rui
2007-03-02 11:13         ` Jean Delvare
2007-03-02 11:13           ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2007-03-02 11:43           ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-02 11:43             ` [lm-sensors] " Matthew Garrett
2007-03-08  9:28           ` Zhang Rui
2007-03-08  9:28             ` [lm-sensors] " Zhang Rui
2007-03-08 11:13             ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2007-03-08 11:13               ` Hans de Goede
2007-03-08 13:13             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-08 13:13               ` [lm-sensors] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-09  8:53               ` Jean Delvare
2007-03-09  8:53                 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2007-03-01  7:06     ` [lm-sensors] RFC: conversion of ibm-acpi " Jean Delvare
2007-03-01  7:06       ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]   ` <20070226172716.b2e956b7.khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-26 18:06     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-26 18:06       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-27  9:01       ` Jean Delvare
2007-02-27  9:01         ` Jean Delvare
2007-02-27 15:41         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-27 15:41           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-28 14:38     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-28 14:38       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-01  7:10       ` Jean Delvare
2007-03-01  7:10         ` Jean Delvare

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