Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:00:20 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hwmon: Driver for SCSI/ATA temperature sensors |
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Hi!
> Finally, this: > > > + if (attr[2] == 194) { > > + *temp = attr[7] * 1000; > > + err = 0; > > + break; > > Smart attribute 194 is highly vendor specific ... for instance my new > SATA drive doesn't implement it (it does implement 190 instead). > > So really, given the complexity of just obtaining the data and the > problem of matching which data to obtain to which device you have, why > not just use smartctl from userspace for monitoring? you could even > just plug into smartd, it seems to have most of the necessary heuristics > built in already.
Well, having unified kernel<->user interface for temperature sensors makes sense.
I'm not sure if benefits outweight costs here (I tend to think they do), but... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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