From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhang Rui Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] RFC: conversion of ibm-acpi to hwmon sysfs Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:31:51 +0800 Message-ID: <1172655111.11100.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070224182024.GA23865@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070226172716.b2e956b7.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:44748 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932091AbXB1Jc5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:32:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070226172716.b2e956b7.khali@linux-fr.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "linux-acpi@vger" On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:27 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Henrique, > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:20:24 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I am working on a conversion of ibm-acpi to sysfs, and in the process I am > > trying to do away with every non-generic interface I can. At least two > > ibm-acpi interfaces map directly to hwmon/lm-sensors style: fan and thermal. > > I'd like to expose them as hwmon attributes, using the hwmon generic > > interfaces for fan control and thermal sensor readings. > > This would be really great. I was thinking about doing the same for the > standard ACPI "fan" and "thermal" modules too, but I happen to be too > busy for that :( Making these drivers compatible with the hwmon > interface is one way to solve the ACPI vs. hwmon issues which have been > reported and discussed lately. > The standard ACPI "fan" and "thermal" modules? I'm converting these two modules to sysfs. I think "thermal" has too much ACPI specific information and is not that easy to have a generic interface. Could you give some more detailed descriptions please? :) Thanks, Rui