Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

Matthew Garrett
2008-02-14T14:09:12Z

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:10:50PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:

> Why do you want to still export the temperature via ACPI sysfs paths
> then?
> Once it is there and userspace progs make use of it, you will have to
> maintain it forever and HAL is getting crazy and must take care about:
> - How to find the ACPI thermal node
> - Find the hwmon node
> - Both interfaces provide temeratures
> - Parse different output of temperature values (totally crazy)
>

Quite. There's still been no indication that anyone cares about fixing
this interface, and I'm upset that it was merged despite there being
clear and valid concerns about it. Do we have a commitment that it's
going to be cleaned up before final? If not, it should be pulled before
userspace starts depending on it. The only hardware where this currently
matters isn't going to be running 2.6.25 anyway.

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