Thermal Zones

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:17 -0500, Stu Hood wrote:
> (from Gnome Bugzilla #347406)
> 
> Although data for acpi thermal zones is exposed through /proc/acpi,
> and potentially sysfs in the near future, it is not currently being
> exposed in HAL. We'd like to rectify that... 
>         Looking through the issue some more, it became clear that the first step would
>         
>         be to get a spec drawn up for how these new keys would be added to HAL. Here is
>         a first draft:
>         
>         http://www.hoodidge.net/development/thermal_zone_v1.html
>         
>         
>         Its seperate from the sensors namespace that you created Richard, because in
>         the context of ACPI, a thermal zone is an abstract device, possibly made up of
>         many sensors on many physical devices.

Maybe we need to abstract these zones/sensors rather than having a acpi
thermal zone type object which I'm guessing isn't very useful in the
world of solaris and freebsd.

Guys, what do you think?

Richard.