Subject: Re: [net-next 8/9] ixgbe: add interface to export thermal data

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:03:56 -0800

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:58:48 +0100
Michał Mirosław <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 2011/12/23 Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]>:
> > From: Don Skidmore <[email-masked]>
> >
> > Some of our adapters have thermal data available, this patch exports this
> > data via a read-only sysfs interface.
> 
> Just curious: can't this use the hwmon subsystem to be consistent with
> other system monitoring devices?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Michał Mirosław

There is also libsensors support in net-snmp, so if you use standard API's
the values can be monitored with standard management tools.