netdev - Re: [RFC] qlcnic: Enhance ethtool to display board temperature.

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:11:28 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...gic.com>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] qlcnic: Enhance ethtool to display board temperature.

 
>  static int
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> index 38dbafa..2012015 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct ethtool_drvinfo {
>  	__u32	testinfo_len;
>  	__u32	eedump_len;	/* Size of data from ETHTOOL_GEEPROM (bytes) */
>  	__u32	regdump_len;	/* Size of data from ETHTOOL_GREGS (bytes) */
> +	__u32	board_temp;     /* board temperature */
>  };

The idea is good but a couple of comments.
1. you can't break userspace ABI for ethtool by adding elements.

2. There already exists a hardware monitoring subsystem in
   Linux and there are applications that use it (like SNMP. If you want this feature to
   be more than a developer toy, then it should use the existing subsystem API's.
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