netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data

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Message-ID: <1340413453.4344.16.camel@LTIRV-MCHAN1.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:04:13 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nsujir@...adcom.com, mcarlson@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor
 data

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 17:26 -0700, David Miller wrote: 
> From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:06:32 -0700
> 
> > Some tg3 devices have management firmware that can export data such as
> > temperature and other real time diagnostics data.  Export this data to
> > sysfs so that userspace can access this information.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@...adcom.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> 
> I do not agree that sysfs is the appropriate place to export binary
> data.
> 

What's your suggestion?  ethtool?


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