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DateThu, 3 Apr 2003 11:49:44 +0100
FromDave Jones <>
SubjectRe: lm sensors sysfs file structure
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:28:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

 > > FWIW, I'm taking the same fixed-point millivolt approach with the
 > > sysfs overrides for cpufreq.  Having similar things in sysfs
 > > exporting the same units seems to be a good idea.
 > 
 > Hm, in looking around the kernel some more, it seems that there are a
 > number of other places that export voltage and temperature values (ACPI
 > being one of the most obvious.)  It might be time to start thinking of a
 > single userspace library to access all of these kinds of values in a
 > system, instead of having to probe around different parts of the sysfs
 > tree by hand...

Had occured to me too. There was talk of a libpower or the likes
mentioned on acpi-devel a year or so back, but afaik nothing really
came of it.

		Dave

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