Re: [lm-sensors] [REGRESSION, ABI] Re: LMSENSORS: 2.6.26-rc, enabling ACPI Termal Zone support costs sensors

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

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On 23-06-08 19:54, Len Brown wrote:

> Rene,
> Thank you for reporting this.
> 
> I agree that this failure is an unwelcome surprise to those users
> who upgrade to 2.6.26 but are still using libsensors <= 2.10.6.
> 
> Jean, Mark, Hans,
> 
> I'm actually fine with adding a temporary kernel config option
> along the lines Rene suggested to ease the  migration
> to linux-2.6.26 for those users.
> 
> But the config option would need to be scheduled for removal
> after a certain period (say 6 months) so we don't have to maintain
> it forever.
> 
> More importantly, I think it would also have to be disabled by default
> so that it would not have a negative impact on what we think are the
> majority of properly configured systems.  After all, we fixed this
> bug in user-space about out 4 months ago and as you point out, the
> distro upgrade path is actually quite well looked after.
> 
> So I'm not sure how useful it would be to the target users.
> After they run into the problem, they'd probably google it
> and find that they can either tweak a kernel config option
> or upgrade libsensors.  And we'd prefer that they do the
> later rather than the former, yes?
> 
> just let me know.

Thank you for the reason. Yes, people upgrading libsensors would be 
preferred and this issue should show up in google now.

Frankly, if I had gone to the lm-sensors homepage and had seen a fixed 
2.x version available I'd no doubt have shrugged it off then and there 
so I might as well do so now that Delvare announced that it's _going_ to 
be there real soon. 2.10.7 should be painless enough as an upgrade, it's 
needing lm-sensors 3.0(.2) and all its listed accompanying patches to 
programs depending on libsensors which triggered this thread.

So, <shrug>. I know how to fix my own systems, others will be able to 
find out and once lm-sensors 2.10.7 is available, it's not a big deal 
anymore.

That said, here's the "make it optional" patch tweaked according to your 
comments. Feel free to drop it on the floor...

Rene.

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>From 8023fee88cdbbc755a9ae692803e6292a619d56c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:50:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] acpi/thermal: allow disabling of thermal zone hwmon support

2.6.26-rc gained a hwmon interface to the Thermal Zone driver
which unfortunately breaks lm-sensors 2 userspace and renders
all other (subsequent) hwmon sensors inoperable also.

Many systems, current slackware and derivative systems among
them, are using lm-sensors 2 and would be affected. A new
lm-sensors 2.10.7 release is needed to fix this from the user
side.

This makes the hwmon support optional (enabled by default) and
comments that it needs a new enough lm-sensors userspace. This
also immediately schedules the option for removal again as this
is only intended to not break systems over the 2.6.26 upgrade
when new enough lm-sensors is not yet available or widely
deployed.

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
CC: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
CC: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
CC: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
CC: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
CC: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |    9 +++++++++
 drivers/thermal/Kconfig                    |   10 ++++++++++
 drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c              |    4 ++--
 include/linux/thermal.h                    |    6 ++----
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 5b3f31f..9e5f86c 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -312,3 +312,12 @@ When:	2.6.26
 Why:	Implementation became generic; users should now include
 	linux/semaphore.h instead.
 Who:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:	CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
+When:	Januaru 2009
+Why:	This option was introduced just to allow older lm-sensors userspace
+	to keep working over the upgrade to 2.6.26. At the scheduled time of
+	removal fixed lm-sensors (2.0 or 3.0) should be readily available.
+Who:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
index 4b62852..0b359ab 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
@@ -12,3 +12,13 @@ menuconfig THERMAL
 	  cooling devices.
 	  All platforms with ACPI thermal support can use this driver.
 	  If you want this support, you should say Y or M here.
+
+config THERMAL_HWMON
+	bool "Hardware monitoring support"
+	depends on HWMON=y || HWMON=THERMAL
+	default y
+	help
+	  The generic thermal sysfs driver's hardware monitoring support
+	  requires a 2.10.7/3.0.2 or later lm-sensors userspace.
+
+	  Say Y unless you need support for older lm-sensors.
diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
index 6098787..fe07462 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
@@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ thermal_cooling_device_trip_point_show(struct device *dev,
 
 /* Device management */
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_HWMON) ||	\
-	(defined(CONFIG_HWMON_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_MODULE))
+#if defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON)
+
 /* hwmon sys I/F */
 #include <linux/hwmon.h>
 static LIST_HEAD(thermal_hwmon_list);
diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
index 06d3e6e..917707e 100644
--- a/include/linux/thermal.h
+++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ struct thermal_cooling_device {
 				((long)t-2732+5)/10 : ((long)t-2732-5)/10)
 #define CELSIUS_TO_KELVIN(t)	((t)*10+2732)
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_HWMON) ||	\
-	(defined(CONFIG_HWMON_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_MODULE))
+#if defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON)
 /* thermal zone devices with the same type share one hwmon device */
 struct thermal_hwmon_device {
 	char type[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
@@ -94,8 +93,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device {
 	struct idr idr;
 	struct mutex lock;	/* protect cooling devices list */
 	struct list_head node;
-#if defined(CONFIG_HWMON) ||	\
-	(defined(CONFIG_HWMON_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_MODULE))
+#if defined(CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON)
 	struct list_head hwmon_node;
 	struct thermal_hwmon_device *hwmon;
 	struct thermal_hwmon_attr temp_input;	/* hwmon sys attr */
-- 
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