Re: [BProc] Adding data to supermon

[steven j. <py...@li...>]

Greetings,

There are a good many sensors out there. I focus on the ones used in
motherboards I deal with (thus, the three that I have).  There is a
natural performance advantage to reading one file over several for sensor
data.

It might be best to use the scan option as a compatability mode where a
specialized driver is not available.

The Tyan does take a while. That's a function of the way the chip itself
samples data. I avoid the hit by having the driver understand that the
granularity of sensor data is 5 seconds (actually it's more like 1, but 5
is 'good enough' and improves performance). I place that in the driver
since it's specific to the chip. The SiS950 for example takes negligable
time to read.

In cases where the sensors are available on the LPC as well as i2c, I
prefer a standalone driver so that it won't need to track lm_sensors at
all. Since sensor information is fairly simple, a standalone driver
matures quickly and need not be touched again until the next kernel branch
comes out.

G'day,
sjames



On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Wilton Wong wrote:

> It seems like alot of source to maintain especially since new chips come out
> everyday and lm_sensors is always under active development.. wouldn't it be
> better to have "mon" scan the /proc/sys/dev/sensors/chips file and readout the
> information in each chip ? or have a seperate daemon do this and plug the info
> into "mon" using monhole ?
> 
> Also on the Tyan-2466 boards it takes a LONG time to read the sensor data (up
> to a second, maybe even 2 to read all of the sensors) I think that period will
> really adversly affect supermon performance, would "mon" block while sampling the
> temperature data ?
> 
> - Wilton
> 
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2002, steven james wrote:
> 
> > I have drivers for sis950, Winbond w83781d, and adm1021 if they would
> > help.
> 
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