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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Chris Verges" <chrisv@cyberswitching.com>
Cc: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>,
	"Rob Owings" <rowings@thermistor.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] linux-2.6.32-directemp
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:01:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100206190117.6fc3be63@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C2445C2@mail03.cyberswitching.local>

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 08:58:14 -0800, Chris Verges wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hi Bruno,
> 
> I agree.  However, I've had other drivers in the past been pooh-pooh'd by the lm-sensors maintainers because they don't seem to fit exactly what the lm-sensors folks want in a driver.  Unfortunately, I  seem to be bad at understanding the purpose of lm-sensors.  :-)  I'd like to get their approval before any work is done to migrate over to lm-sensors.

I can see that you tried to submit a driver for an accelerometer chip.
This indeed did not quite fit in the hwmon subsystem (although for
historical and unfortunate reasons we have a couple of them sitting
there at the moment... they should really go away!)

Temperature sensors definitely fit in the hwmon subsystem.

Humidity sensors... why not, we have already one.

-- 
Jean Delvare

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-06 18:01 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
     [not found]   ` <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C2445C2@mail03.cyberswitching.local>
2010-02-06 18:01     ` Jean Delvare [this message]

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