Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 2.6.12-rc4 15/15] drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c: use dynamic sysfs callbacks

Yani Ioannou
2005-05-22T12:15:39Z

On 5/22/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:50, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > > I really think that as far as I2C subsystem goes instead of creating
> > > arrays of attributes we should move in direction of drivers
> > > registering individual sensor class devices. So for example it87 would
> > > register 3 fans, 3 temp, sensors and 8 voltage sensors...

Well lets see some code ;-), but yeah I have to agree with Jean here,
I don't see a nice way to standardize this across all hwmon drivers,
things just differ too much.

> > First, it's a matter of hardware monitoring drivers, not i2c subsystem
> > (both are tightly binded at the moment but I'd like this to change).

How is that change going anyway? I could really do with something
finalized, but the last I heard about it was Mark Hoffman's patch and
that didn't seem to go anywhere.

Yani