Re: [lm-sensors] coretemp.0 folder contents changed

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 05/07/2014 12:13 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> On Tue, 06 May 2014 06:32:15 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Can we implement a similar approach to network devices and make hwmon
>> path names (ie the /sys/class/hwmon/XXX path name) configurable via udev ?
>> Might be worth exploring.
>
> This is one possibility indeed. The good thing is that libsensors makes
> no assumption on hwmon class device names, so we can change the names
> without breaking any application which uses libsensors. Scripts
> accessing sysfs directly may break though (pwmconfig would, for
> example.)
>
> We'll have to be careful when choosing the new names, and make sure
> there is no name space collision. Network interface renaming has caused
> a great deal of trouble out there.
>
Agreed. I'll try to find some time to play with it.

> Another approach, which I have in mind for quite some time already but
> could never find the time to implement, would be a small helper binary
> which would look-up hwmon devices by libsensors-like name (and the
> other way around too.) Scripts could use it to benefit from libsensors
> persistent names.
>
Still needs that binary, though.

Guenter