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.