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Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:35:45 +0200 From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de> To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> Cc: kreijack@...ind.it, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Export the temperatures via hwmon Le Thursday 07 August 2014 à 00:36 -0700, Guenter Roeck a écrit : > On 08/06/2014 11:52 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Guenter, > > > > On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 23:20:32 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> Patch 4/5 is "Return the fan speed via sysfs: /sys/devices/temperature/fan_level". > >> > >> So you are saying that returning the fan speed with a non-hwmon attribute works, > >> but returning it with a hwmon attribute doesn't ? Not really sure if I understand > >> your logic. Either fan_level doesn't return the fan speed (or an abstraction of it), > >> or something in your line of argument is inconsistent. > > > > fan_level is a fan speed _control_ value, like pwm1. It is not a fan > > speed monitoring value. > > > Ah, ok. The patch description doesn't seem to match, though. > And why not export it as pwm1, if that is what it is ? Well, /sys/devices/temperature is a non-standard interface anyway, so it does not really matter. I already discussed with Goffredo the possibility to also expose it as pwm1 on the hwmon side, this might happen later. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- 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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