Re-use witherspoon-psu-monitor

[Brad Bishop]

at 2:22 PM, Matt Spinler <mspinler at linux.ibm.com> wrote:

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> On 8/12/2019 3:54 AM, George Liu (刘锡伟) wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Recently I need to get the asset information of psu on the fp5280g2  
>> machine. For the downstream, I think re-use witherspoon-psu-monitor is  
>> better. but currently it`s only adapted witherspoon machine.Is it  
>> possible to change this recipes to a general repo, so that a repo can be  
>> adapted to a variety of machines for future maintenance and updates?
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me!  The only reason we put a witherspoon on  
> the repo name in  the first place was because we didn't know how others  
> would want to do PSU interaction at that time and we didn't want to  
> presume that we should be a generic repo for it.
>
>> I have a couple of question:
>>
>> 1. For the recipes of the witherspoon-psu-monitor, could it be changed  
>> to a generic name, for example...
>
> Yea, we would definitely want to change the recipe name if we change the  
> repo name.
>
>> 2. When reading and updating the properties of the  
>> xyz.openbmc_project.Inventory.Decorator.Asset interface via the pmbus  
>> driver, could it be changed to a common configuration (eg yaml or json,  
>> etc.)
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're looking to do, but if the goal is to  
> make it more generic, I'm all for it.  I have no problem with making  
> things configurable.
>
>> 3. /sys/kenerl/debug/pmbus/hwmonX/XXX/... Does each file name need to be  
>> unified?
>
> If you're suggesting adding some configurable way of specifying which  
> sysfs files to read, that also sounds like a good idea.
>
>> Thanks!

I’ve put out a proposal to move forward on this in another thread here:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-August/017729.html

I should have just replied to this thread…sorry ABT.

thx - brad