Intergrating lm_sensors support into hal

[Danny Kukawka]

Hi,

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:33, Hans de Goede wrote:
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> So now I have 3 questions:
> 1) Do you think that the above is a good idea?
> 2) Is hal a good place to add this functionality too

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to implement this in HAL. I think it's maybe 
a better idea to write a daemon or other program which listen on DBUS for HAL 
events (matching the key) and configure lmsensors. 

For me HAL is not really the place to configure other "system daemons". IMO 
there are also to many different boards to handle this in a fast way within 
HAL fdi file match. 

But what I would like to see in HAL is to provides the data from 
lmsensors/proc if available.

Cheers,

Danny

> 3) Where do I go from now?
>    My idea/ understanding of question 3:
>   -add a callout program which gets executed when "Computer" is done
>    probing
>   -this program will then read the database of motherboards and load
>    appropiate modules or generate config and let the lm_sensors
>    init script load modules
>   -modules generate hotplugs which i need to write another piece of
>    software to catch and generate device tree nodes based on the
>    hotplugs, here fdi's can be used for info not available from the
>    hotplug event.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Hans