From: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
To: "Chris Verges" <chrisv@cyberswitching.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rob Owings" <rowings@thermistor.com>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.32-directemp
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100206104251.1be31941@neptune.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C24A5BD@mail03.cyberswitching.local>
On Thu, 04 February 2010 "Chris Verges" wrote:
> Attached is a patch for the QTI DirecTEMP USB thermometer &
> thermometer/hygrometer sensors. This patch is based on linux-2.6.32.
> Functionality has been verified against both hardware variants listed
> in the driver (0x0002 and 0x0006), as both monolithic and modular.
>
> When the QTI DirecTEMP sensor is connected to a system, the directemp
> driver adds appropriate sysfs entries for the sensor type(s)
> supported. Examples:
>
> # PID 0x0002 (temp only)
> /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../temp
>
> # PID 0x0006 (temp + relative humidity)
> /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../temp
> /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../rh
>
> Using a standard "cat" will display the value.
Wouldn't it make sense to make use of hardware monitoring interfaces so
lm_sensors could handle the sensor information? (added to CC)
This would also be a good reason to have the driver on kernel side
rather than somewhere in userspace.
Bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-06 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 4:47 [PATCH] linux-2.6.32-directemp Chris Verges
2010-02-05 15:45 ` Alan Stern
2010-02-05 17:16 ` Greg KH
2010-02-05 17:32 ` Chris Verges
2010-02-05 20:40 ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-05 21:32 ` Chris Verges
2010-02-05 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-05 23:58 ` Greg KH
2010-02-06 0:26 ` Chris Verges
2010-02-06 8:55 ` Greg KH
2010-02-06 9:42 ` Bruno Prémont [this message]
[not found] ` <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C2445C2@mail03.cyberswitching.local>
2010-02-06 18:01 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
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