Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 May 2014 05:10:58 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] coretemp.0 folder contents changed |
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On 05/07/2014 12:13 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Tue, 06 May 2014 06:32:15 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> Can we implement a similar approach to network devices and make hwmon >> path names (ie the /sys/class/hwmon/XXX path name) configurable via udev ? >> Might be worth exploring. > > This is one possibility indeed. The good thing is that libsensors makes > no assumption on hwmon class device names, so we can change the names > without breaking any application which uses libsensors. Scripts > accessing sysfs directly may break though (pwmconfig would, for > example.) > > We'll have to be careful when choosing the new names, and make sure > there is no name space collision. Network interface renaming has caused > a great deal of trouble out there. > Agreed. I'll try to find some time to play with it.
> Another approach, which I have in mind for quite some time already but > could never find the time to implement, would be a small helper binary > which would look-up hwmon devices by libsensors-like name (and the > other way around too.) Scripts could use it to benefit from libsensors > persistent names. > Still needs that binary, though.
Guenter
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