Re: [PATCH] i8k: Add support for temperature sensor labels

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

On 11/29/2014 09:43 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 05:04:07PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> This patch adds labels for temperature sensors if SMM function with EAX register
>> 0x11a3 reports it. These informations was taken from DOS binary NBSVC.MDM.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/i8k.c |  110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>>   1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/i8k.c b/drivers/char/i8k.c
>> index e34a019..77af46b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/i8k.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/i8k.c
>> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
>>   #define I8K_SMM_GET_FAN		0x00a3
>>   #define I8K_SMM_GET_SPEED	0x02a3
>>   #define I8K_SMM_GET_TEMP	0x10a3
>> +#define I8K_SMM_GET_TEMP_TYPE	0x11a3
>>   #define I8K_SMM_GET_DELL_SIG1	0xfea3
>>   #define I8K_SMM_GET_DELL_SIG2	0xffa3
>>
>> @@ -288,6 +289,14 @@ static int i8k_set_fan(int fan, int speed)
>>   	return i8k_smm(&regs) ? : i8k_get_fan_status(fan);
>>   }
>>
>> +static int i8k_get_temp_type(int sensor)
>> +{
>> +	struct smm_regs regs = { .eax = I8K_SMM_GET_TEMP_TYPE, };
>> +
>> +	regs.ebx = sensor & 0xff;
>> +	return i8k_smm(&regs) ? : regs.eax & 0xff;
>> +}
>> +
>>   /*
>>    * Read the cpu temperature.
>>    */
>> @@ -493,6 +502,29 @@ static int i8k_open_fs(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>>    * Hwmon interface
>>    */
>>
>> +static ssize_t i8k_hwmon_show_temp_label(struct device *dev,
>> +				   struct device_attribute *devattr,
>> +				   char *buf)
>> +{
>> +	static const char * const labels[] = {
>> +		"CPU",
>> +		"GPU",
>> +		"SODIMM",
>> +		"Other",
>> +		"Ambient",
>> +		"Other",
>> +	};Documentation/hwmon/
>> +	int index = to_sensor_dev_attr(devattr)->index;
>> +	int type;
>> +
>> +	type = i8k_get_temp_type(index);
>> +	if (type < 0)
>> +		return type;
>> +	if (type >= ARRAY_SIZE(labels))
>> +		type = ARRAY_SIZE(labels) - 1;
>> +	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", labels[type]);
>> +}
>
> No Documentation/ABI/ entry for your new sysfs file?
>
That would be Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface,
presumably for historic reasons (its existence precedes
the existence of Documentation/ABI).

Question might be if we should move that file at some point
to Documentation/ABI/<some-name>, though that would be a
major effort.

Guenter