Re: thermal: Avoid CONFIG_NET compile dependency

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:18:36AM -0500, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 02:43:15 PM Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:48:43AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 05:47:56 am R, Durgadoss wrote:
> ...
> > > I don't remember the details, but one thing for sure if that you can't 
> > > change the format of existing attributes the hwmon subsystem (and 
> > > libsensors) is using. These are standardized per 
> > > Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, so they can't be changed. But there 
> > > is no problem with registering a second class device with the thermal 
> > > subsystem and adding whatever attributes you want to have there.
> > > 
> > A secondary problem is that thermal subsystem drivers register themselves
> > with the hwmon subsystem - at least if CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON is defined.
> > So it doesn't really make much sense for a driver to register itself
> > as thermal driver _and_ as hwmon driver, since it may end up being listed
> > twice as hwmon device.
> Having a very quick look at coretemp, this one only provides thermal data,
> right?
> So it should register as a thermal driver which in turn tells userspace
> that lsmsensors can retrieve data from it.
> The data would then get exported via:
> /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/
> and the whole platform code can get removed.
> 
That would be an option.

Guenter