Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > On 11/28/2017 05:07 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: >> >>> Adds support to enable/disable a sensor group. This can be used to >>> select the sensor groups that needs to be copied to main memory by >>> OCC. Sensor groups like power, temperature, current, voltage, >>> frequency, utilization can be enabled/disabled at runtime. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >>> --- >>> The skiboot patch for the opal call is posted below: >>> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2017-November/009713.html >> >> Can you remind me why we're doing this with a completely bespoke sysfs >> API, rather than using some generic sensors API? >> > > Disabling/Enabling sensor groups is not supported in the current generic > sensors > API. And also we dont export all type of sensors in HWMON as not all of them > are > environment sensors (like performance).
Are there barriers to adding such concepts to the generic sensors API? -- Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM.
