Re: [RFC 2.6] sensor chips sysfs interface change (long)

["Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@babylon.d2dc.net>]

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I plan to make rather important changes to the sysfs interface of I2C
> chip drivers in Linux 2.6. The topic has already been discussed on the
> lm_sensors mailing list, bug Greg KH suggested that I should explain my
> intentions here too, so here I am.

<snip>
> THE PLAN
> 
> I propose a three-step plan.
> 
> 1* Change the base scheme (e.g. temp_min1 -> temp1_min). This is the
> more important change (in the sense it affects all drivers and the
> libsensors library) and correspond to the second problem listed above.
> 
> 2* Change the hysteresis names (temp1_hyst -> temp1_max_hyst). Only some
> drivers are impacted. Changes required to the library as well.
> 
> 3* Add splitted alarm files. This doesn't break the interface (these are
> new files), but on the other hand needs that we think about it a bit
> more so that our choices are extendable and correct for all known
> drivers.
> 
> Comments welcome (or even requested, according to the subject line).

I would like to further suggest the renaming of 'sensor<n>' to
'temp<n>_sensor' or 'temp<n>_type', in the interest of being consistent.

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