Re: userspace regression with hwmon

From	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: userspace regression with hwmon
Date	2017-06-27 15:40 +0200
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 05:52:39 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 05:23 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Well, using the raw platform device path was a bad design decision.
> > But I still see a difference. In v3.8 all the temp* nodes were in
> > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/ but in v4.4 I can see that they are in
> > /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/. So if we do modify the code, then we still
> > need to have two versions of userspace code based on the kernel.
> 
> Your code should check for the 'name' attribute in both locations.

... as libsensors does. If you just do what libsensors does, you'll be
on the safe side.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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userspace regression with hwmon Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 16:40 +0200
  Re: userspace regression with hwmon Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-06-26 19:10 +0200
    Re: userspace regression with hwmon Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2017-06-27 14:30 +0200
      Re: userspace regression with hwmon Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-06-27 15:00 +0200
        Re: userspace regression with hwmon Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> - 2017-06-27 15:40 +0200

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