Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-25 Thread Hans de Goede
Zhang, Rui wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 16:29 +0800, Jean Delvare wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:54:06 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Zhang, Rui wrote: Hi, Hans, On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:00 +0800, Hans de Goede wrote: I think all that is really needed and asked for is for the new thermal

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-24 Thread Zhang, Rui
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 16:29 +0800, Jean Delvare wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:54:06 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Zhang, Rui wrote: Hi, Hans, On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:00 +0800, Hans de Goede wrote: I think all that is really needed and asked for is for the new thermal ACPI

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-23 Thread Jean Delvare
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:54:06 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: Zhang, Rui wrote: Hi, Hans, On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:00 +0800, Hans de Goede wrote: I think all that is really needed and asked for is for the new thermal ACPI code to: 1) provide temp readings in the same format as hwmon

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-21 Thread zhangrui
Hi, all, Sorry for the late response as I'm on the Chinese New Year vacation. On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 22:08 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:10:50PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: Why do you want to still export the temperature via ACPI sysfs paths then? Once it is

RE: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-15 Thread Thomas, Sujith
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:10:50PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: Why do you want to still export the temperature via ACPI sysfs paths then? Once it is there and userspace progs make use of it, you will have to maintain it forever and HAL is getting crazy and must take care about: -

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:34:34PM +0530, Thomas, Sujith wrote: Len had mentioned in one of his responses that there is scope for evolving and we can do that. As you pointed out if there are differences in the way temperatures are reported out, we can go ahead and fix it. That's fine, but

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:10:50PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: Why do you want to still export the temperature via ACPI sysfs paths then? Once it is there and userspace progs make use of it, you will have to maintain it forever and HAL is getting crazy and must take care about: - How to

RE: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:53 +0530, Thomas, Sujith wrote: ... I absolutely don't have any issue with this. I feel that's the way to go. Hwmon can roll out a patch which can report out temperature of thermal sensors which are connected to EC and which follows ACPI spec. Why do you want to still

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-06 Thread Len Brown
Agreed. However, *duplicating* what is already in hwmon elsewhere is not fun. Please reconsider. I started off with the same position as you, Henrique, but Rui and Sujith don't see it that way. Of course this is software, we can always change it -- particularly since there will be a very

RE: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas, Sujith
management sysfs class, and hwmon Hi: (btw: Please use an email client that doesn't completely butcher the text to which you're replying. Thanks.) On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:26 +0800, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: And the two sysfs ABIs are incompatible. The ACPI one uses

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-03 Thread Zhang Rui
Hi, henrique, On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:26 +0800, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: The new thermal managemeny sysfs class that was just merged into acpi-test, especially when dealing with temperature measurement and fan control, has a lot of common ground with the hwmon interface. Yes,

Re: The new thermal management sysfs class, and hwmon

2008-02-03 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi: On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:26 +0800, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: The new thermal managemeny sysfs class that was just merged into acpi-test, especially when dealing with temperature measurement and fan control, has a lot of common ground with the hwmon interface. * Zhang Rui