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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nsujir@broadcom.com, mcarlson@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:26:51 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120622.172651.932738000786251092.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340237192-30052-3-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com>

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:06:32 -0700

> Some tg3 devices have management firmware that can export data such as
> temperature and other real time diagnostics data.  Export this data to
> sysfs so that userspace can access this information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

I do not agree that sysfs is the appropriate place to export binary
data.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-21  0:06 [PATCH 1/3 net-next] tg3: Add common function tg3_ape_event_lock() Michael Chan
2012-06-21  0:06 ` [PATCH 2/3 net-next] tg3: Add APE scratchpad read and write functions Michael Chan
2012-06-21  0:06   ` [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data Michael Chan
2012-06-23  0:26     ` David Miller [this message]
2012-06-23  1:04       ` Michael Chan
2012-06-23 15:02         ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-25 21:04           ` Michael Chan
2012-06-25 21:25             ` Ben Hutchings
2012-06-25 21:50               ` Michael Chan
2012-06-25 22:24               ` David Miller
2012-06-23  0:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-06-23  1:32       ` Michael Chan

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