/sys/class/hwmon not populated on Jessie

I tried this image: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2015-12-13/lxqt-4gb/bone-debian-8.2-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2015-12-13-4gb.img.xz

As I understand it this is the most recent jessie build.
Unfortunately on this image /sys/class/hwmon is not populated.

It is populated on the wheezy builds.

Do I need to install a package or kernel-module that solves this problem?
Or is there a fix in the pipeline?

TI deemed the internal temp sensor too "inaccurate" to push mainline..

Feel free to downgrae to 3.8.x if you need it:

cd /opt/scripts/tools/
git pull
sudo ./update_kernel.sh --bone-channel --stable

Regards,

I did. Thanks.

Any chance this could be implemented by a third-party? Or is the TI-code a proprietary blob?

Yeah, it's easy to fix:

sudo ln -s /dev/urandom /sys/class/hwmon/temp_sensor

okay so it's not "that" bad.. But /dev/urandom is more 'consistent'...

But bad enough, TI hardware engineers told TI kernel developers to not
bother pushing it upstream.

This has been discussed previously on this list..

Regards,

I know this has been discussed and I understand TI’s POV. I apologize if I seemed pushy or something. That is not my intention. It’s just that I currently see data coming from my BBB that seems reasonable, although slightly offset. There seems to be a nice correlation with changes in room-temperature too.

Anyway, it was just me wondering. Never mind. I’ll retire my code.

Thanks for the answer. Really appreciating your effort.

Yeah, it’s easy to fix:

sudo ln -s /dev/urandom /sys/class/hwmon/temp_sensor
. . .

LMAO !

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.linaro.devel/16501

Regards,

One can not help but wonder. Why have a “thing” at all, if it doesn’t work properly . . . and this isn’t the first “thing” on this SoC which doesn’t work properly . . .