dbus-sensors + phosphor-hwmon

[Patrick Venture]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 9:58 AM James Feist <james.feist at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/22/2019 3:26 PM, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > I haven't tested yet, but I have a device-tree with a lot of ~40
> > hard-coded sensors on it, and then the other sensors will be detected
> > with entity-manager (once that's set up).
>
> Entity-manager doesn't detect sensors, it detects removable components
> then expects certain sensors. For our baseboard here:
> https://github.com/openbmc/entity-manager/blob/master/configurations/WFT%20Baseboard.json
> at the bottom of the file there is a dbus-probe for an
> xyz.openbmc_project.FruDevice interface with some specific properties.
> If those match, then entity-manager through sysfs can add some sensors
> https://github.com/openbmc/entity-manager/blob/master/include/devices.hpp

Right, so entity-manager writes out a configuration to dbus and
dbus-sensors works from that exported configuration on dbus -- ?
That's my current understanding, the trick is, the dynamic versus
static, and how some sensors are already specified in the device-tree.

>
> You could also use device tree if you wanted, the export just wouldn't
> succeed. But you would need a json file with the sensors bus and address
> for dbus-sensors to work.
>
> -James
>
>
> >
> > In this case, will entity-manager populate the dbus configuration with
> > those in the device-tree initially making them available to
> > dbus-sensors? (or will we or should we, also configure phosphor-hwmon
> > for those sensors?)
> >
> > Patrick
> >