Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather thanhardcoding resources and devices

[Henrik Rydberg]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:37:19 +0100, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > So where to attach the sysfs nodes... There is also a userspace issue
> > here, since a lot of applications are hard-wired to
> > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/.
> 
> Which applications? libsensors-based applications definitely don't
> hard-wire anything.

The ones I am thinking of are pommed and macfanctld, there are
probably others. The sysfs nodes have been around a while, so it is
not really surprising. If there is a policy saying it is ok to break
userspace in this case, that's fine.

Henrik
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