Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 0/5] net: hwmon fixes

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:56:26 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 19:23 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:15:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > We don't attach them to the hwmon device either, and I would rather not
> > > change that yet because lm-sensors 2 is still widely used.
> > 
> > Mouahahahah.
> > 
> > No, seriously, it's not.
> 
> RHEL 5 has it, and that is widely used - even with recent mainline
> kernels, in some cases.

RHEL 5 comes with kernel 2.6.18, which isn't exactly recent. I very
much doubt a significant share of users dare to use a brand new kernel
on such an old distribution. And if they do, then there are several
packages which need to be updated (udev, kernel-firmware...),
lm-sensors is only one of them, and the user should be aware of that.

> > And lm-sensors 2 doesn't even support your
> > device so this is a totally moot point.
> 
> I thought it did work with arbitrary devices providing the right
> attributes, but obviously I misremembered.

This is how lm-sensors 3 works. But lm-sensors 2 needs explicit support
for each and every device. Which is exactly why version 2 sucked and
nobody should be using it any longer.

> So there's no reason not to change.  Thanks.

Good to hear :)

-- 
Jean Delvare