From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261355AbUBUNNX (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:13:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261546AbUBUNNX (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:13:23 -0500 Received: from c-24-99-36-145.atl.client2.attbi.com ([24.99.36.145]:22796 "EHLO babylon.d2dc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261355AbUBUNNU (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:13:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:13:18 -0500 From: "Zephaniah E. Hull" To: Jean Delvare Cc: LKML , LM Sensors , Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6] sensor chips sysfs interface change (long) Message-ID: <20040221131318.GA31688@babylon.d2dc.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jean Delvare , LKML , LM Sensors , Greg KH References: <20040218220845.361341c9.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040218220845.361341c9.khali@linux-fr.org> X-Notice-1: Unsolicited Commercial Email (Aka SPAM) to ANY systems under X-Notice-2: our control constitutes a $US500 Administrative Fee, payable X-Notice-3: immediately. By sending us mail, you hereby acknowledge that X-Notice-4: policy and agree to the fee. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > 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. > THE PLAN >=20 > I propose a three-step plan. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 2* Change the hysteresis names (temp1_hyst -> temp1_max_hyst). Only some > drivers are impacted. Changes required to the library as well. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Comments welcome (or even requested, according to the subject line). I would like to further suggest the renaming of 'sensor' to 'temp_sensor' or 'temp_type', in the interest of being consistent. --=20 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. Perl =3D=3D Being -- Descartes (paraphrased). --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAN1luRFMAi+ZaeAERAsOKAJ9SULHLAnxKJ0ePH2/BLflpYSyqEQCg4oUy ti98KuavrvZg+/xCz3mX9i0= =pngB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--