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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:59:34 -0700
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:06:32 -0700
"Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> wrote:

> 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>

Linux has existing sensor api's that can be used by existing
services like SNMP. Wouldn't you like the it to just work with
existing code API's?