From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] hwmon: (lm90) Add SMBus alert support Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:55 -0800 Message-ID: <201002131811.55619.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <20100213230438.31fd0fd7@hyperion.delvare> <20100213231116.1d3ad806@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100213231116.1d3ad806-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: Linux I2C , Trent Piepho List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 13 February 2010, Jean Delvare wrote: > At this point this is more of a proof-of-concept, we don't do anything > terribly useful on SMBus alert: we simply log the event. But this could > later evolve into libsensors signaling so that user-space applications > can take an appropriate action. Yeah, this is a case where it's a *GOOD THING* to let that particular camel stick its nose into the tent ... ;) Polling for alerts is kind of sub-optimal, and that's the best that's been possible until now. - Dave