From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare) Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:18:05 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] LM Sensors autoconfig tool project awarded as Message-Id: <20060602221805.2ba332d3.khali@linux-fr.org> List-Id: References: <44744596.40406@hhs.nl> In-Reply-To: <44744596.40406@hhs.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hi Hans, > > I don't know of any better ways to automatically identify mainboards. > > However, I've been mulling over an idea to make manual configuration > > easier. Rather than distribute a single giant sensors.conf.eg as we > > do now, we could distribute a tree of conf files, one per board: > > > > /etc/sensors/ > > /etc/sensors/asus/ > > /etc/sensors/asus/p4s333.conf > > /etc/sensors/asus/p4c800-e-deluxe.conf > > I personally think this is a good idea, but how big will this become? > Any idea how many motherboards there are out there? lots but how much? The Motherboard Monitor project had around 1100 known motherboards when it stopped 2 years ago. So depending on how successful we get, the number of configuration files could range from a few hundreds to 2000 or so. -- Jean Delvare