From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755890Ab0BFSBX (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:01:23 -0500 Received: from poutre.nerim.net ([62.4.16.124]:58039 "EHLO poutre.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752235Ab0BFSBV (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 13:01:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:01:17 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: "Chris Verges" Cc: Bruno =?UTF-8?B?UHLDqW1vbnQ=?= , Rob Owings , Greg Kroah-Hartman , 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 Message-ID: <20100206190117.6fc3be63@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C2445C2@mail03.cyberswitching.local> References: <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C24A5BD@mail03.cyberswitching.local> <20100206104251.1be31941@neptune.home> <68FBE0F3CE97264395875AC1C468F22C2445C2@mail03.cyberswitching.local> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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