Re: [lcd4linux] libsensors

[Hans de G. <hde...@re...>]

Hi,

On 07/27/2011 09:55 AM, Michael Reinelt wrote:
> 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?

No libsensors is quite small, written in plain C and has no external dependencies.

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

See above, quite small written in C.

> 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)

I think doing a libsensors plugin is a good idea and a fun little project,
but I'm afraid -ENOTIME applies to me too. But if others are interested
I'll gladly help with answering any questions people may have about
libsensors.

Regards,

Hans