Re: [PATCH 3/3 net-next] tg3: Add sysfs file to export sensor data

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 17:26 -0700, David Miller wrote: 

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:06:32 -0700

quoted

Some tg3 devices have management firmware that can export data such as
temperature and other real time diagnostics data.  Export this data to
sysfs so that userspace can access this information.

Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

I do not agree that sysfs is the appropriate place to export binary
data.

What's your suggestion?  ethtool?