[lcd4linux] libsensors

[Michael R. <mi...@re...>]

Hi Hans,

in your email you wrote:
> Note that I'm an active contributor to lm_sensors upstream too,
> and a such I must say that it would be better if there would be
> a plugin using libsensors rather then accessing sysfs directly.
> The advantages are that libsensors takes care of the details
> of sysfs parsing, and more importantly that it offers one
> central configuration file for things like scaling and offsets
> of sensors, as often some conversion is needed to go from raw
> sysfs value to a "real" value.

Using libsensors sounds like a good idea.

The i2c_sensors plugin is quite old (it was contributed by Xavier Vello back in 2004). maybe at that time libsensors was 
not available, or in a bad quality, or...

Another question comes to my mind: I always try to keep "embedded systems" in mind. Do you see a problem with libsensors 
there?

OTOH, is there a possible performance penalty when using libsensors?

anyway, because of me lacking experience with libsensors, and because of -ENOTIME, any volunteers for a new plugin? (I'd 
prefer having a seperate plugin for that, keeping the old one at least for some time)




regards, Michael


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