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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 8/9] ixgbe: add interface to export thermal data
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:22:12 +0100
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On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 18:58 +0100, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote:
> 2011/12/23 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>:
> > From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
> >
> > Some of our adapters have thermal data available, this patch export=
s this
> > data via a read-only sysfs interface.
>=20
> Just curious: can't this use the hwmon subsystem to be consistent wit=
h
> other system monitoring devices?

That would certainly be the proper way to expose this...

Ben.

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