shirou
Restore optional temperatures properties on Linux
fixes #1319
This PR restores the properties reported before #905 such as minimum and alarm temperatures reported by some devices on Linux. To do so we introduce a Optional struct-member containing all values found with the device prefix. This way, the PR is backward compatible, i.e. existing code will continue to work without changes, but provides those properties including a way to check if High and Critical properties actually exists or not.
According to linux kernel document, there are a lot of parameters. So I agree to use map[string]float64 without defining all these properties.
However, temperature exists in psutil, but https://psutil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#sensors did not seem to support anything other than the existing current, high, and critical.
Also, other than Linux, only FreeBSD is supported on psutil. And on FreeBSD, it seemed that only current could be obtained with sysctl.
I think that gopsutil should align to psutil as much as possible, and I also want to remove parameters that can be obtained only on Linux as much as possible. Therefore, I am of the opinion that if anyone wants temperatures, I think that person should create a separate library for Linux.
If we want to add a parameter that does not exist in psutil, I believe we have to be able to take values in at least two distributions, which means Windwos/mac/Linux/*BSD.
@shirou how about defining (named) structure members the same way psutil does but provide the said map for all arch-specific properties? We are currently using this library in telegraf and most users usually want to monitor everything the arch supports...
Unfortunately, in the current version v3, this PR is not acceptable. However, we are considering the possibility of handling platform specific information in v4 in #1547. Maybe that version will be able to handle this kind of information.
Can you explain why this is not possible in v3? This is a non-breaking change, so all existing users are uneffected...