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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:06:40 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com> To: Phil Pokorny <ppokorny@...guincomputing.com> CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org> Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Location for thermal drivers On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:53 -0500, Phil Pokorny wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Guenter Roeck > <guenter.roeck@...csson.com> wrote: > > I think a better location for the driver would be drivers/thermal. > > drivers/hwmon is not really a good fit, since hwmon support for thermal > > drivers is optional. Potential problem with drivers/thermal is that > > there are no thermal drivers in there (yet), and there does not seem to > > be a maintainer. > > What is the difference between a "thermal" sensor and a "temperature" > sensor? Aren't they the same thing? > The thermal framework is much more extensive than the hwmon framework. See Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt for details. > Why does drivers/thermal exist if there are no drivers in it and no maintainer? > The framework resides there. Drivers supporting it are in various platform directories. As for why there are no drivers - only the framework - in drivers/thermal, and why there is no maintainer - no idea. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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