Re: [lm-sensors] The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-02-15T12:19:58Z

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:34:34PM +0530, Thomas, Sujith wrote:
> > Len had mentioned in one of his responses that there is scope for
> > evolving
> > and we can do that. As you pointed out if there are
> > differences in the way temperatures are reported out, we can go ahead
> > and
> > fix it.
>
> That's fine, but it *needs* to be done before 2.6.25 is released.
> Otherwise we're stuck with the broken one forever, which is somewhat
> longer than ideal.

And, frankly, the thermal sysfs class should be marked EXPERIMENTAL in
Kconfig at this time, IMHO. Otherwise, fixing it after 2.6.25 is out will
be more difficult.

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Henrique Holschuh