Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:30:37 +0200 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: How to use the generic thermal sysfs. |
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:58:21 +0800, Wei Ni wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 09:21 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > is it possible to program the sensor at this time, in your own thermal > > driver? > > Since we are using the generic thermal driver lm90.c, I'm not sure if we > could program these limits in the generic driver, I think it's better to > have a generic interface to set the limits, so I wish to add a > callback .set_limits() in the generic thermal framework.
I can confirm that hwmon drivers do not set limits, it is up to user-space to do it if they want. So if there is a need to do so in the kernel itself, a proper interface at the generic thermal framework level seems appropriate.
-- Jean Delvare
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