Re: [Openhpi-devel] libsysfs deprecation

[Anton P. <ant...@pi...>]

I dream sometimes about plug-in that would represent whole Linux box.
With entity hierarchy containing motherboard, PCI cards, disks, RAM, fans  
and other stuff.
Sysfs plug-in as I can see expose only temperature sensors.

	Anton Pak

On Mon, 23 May 2011 23:32:09 +0400, Bryan Sutula <Bry...@hp...>  
wrote:

> I received a bug report warning that libsysfs is likely to be deprecated
> in newer versions of distributions:
>
>         http://bugs.debian.org/627647
>
> Without this library, we can't compile the sysfs plug-in for OpenHPI.
>
> Secondly, someone wrote asking about the sysfs plug-in, and specifically
> mentioned:
>
>         "I was hoping the sysfs interface plugin would be a bit more
>         interesting but, as far as I can tell, it’s not doing anything."
>
> Does the sysfs plug-in really do anything useful?  Should we keep it?
> Anyone interested in maintaining it?
>
> It seems (though I have not checked) that it would not be difficult to
> modify the sysfs plug-in to not use the libsysfs library, but my
> question is whether anyone cares about the sysfs plug-in, and especially
> does anyone care to do the work?  It would be a nice, reasonably-sized
> project for someone who is wanting to become more familiar with OpenHPI
> and contribute to the project.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> Bryan Sutula
>
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