On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> I'd certainly like to make this code useful for something other than >> developer training. >> How about a new monitor command "thermometer_set" that works like >> "mouse_move"? >> "thermometer_set" would just set the temperature of the "first" >> thermometer device it finds. > > Couldn't the device be a parameter? > > And I'd suggest usb_therm_set for the name. >
Looking at the existing "mouse_set" and "mouse_move" monitor commands, they work on USB, PS/2 and other kinds of mice with "mouse_set" selecting the mouse device affected by "mouse_move". So how about a new command "therm_set" which selects the thermometer affected by "therm_temp" ? On a separate note, I understand that if a piece of code is not useful enough we don't want to merge it to add to the maintenance burden. I still propose 'usb-gotemp' for merging because the fact that gregkh could give his driver tutorial several years in a roll to sizable audiences shows that there are people out there interested in getting into Linux driver development. With this code merged, people could follow the video and slides of his talk without special hardware and this potentially grows the Linux developer pool.
