On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 19:23 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:15:50 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 09:07 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Yes, I know about that one. It concluded that it would be too invasive
> > > and risky to try to fix it without access to hardware to test the results.
> > > That is why I said "fixes _most_ of the problems".
> > > 
> > > As for why the attributes are created after registration, it was most 
> > > likely
> > > because there was no API available to attach the sysfs attributes to
> > > the hwmon device in a clean way. The new APIs fix that.
> > 
> > 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.

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

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


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