From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mds@paradyne.com (Mark D. Studebaker ) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:24:06 +0000 Subject: sensors-detect Message-Id: <3F19D838.604@paradyne.com> List-Id: References: <20030610192542.766e220d.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20030610192542.766e220d.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org agreed - that's why we have a separate column in the new drivers page for whether the chip is detected. you can put 'CVS' or a release number in that column too. Jean Delvare wrote: > I've been adding support to sensor-detect for some chips we don't have a > driver for yet (LM82, LM86, LM90) and I plan to add some more in the > next few days. I think it's generally a good idea to detect many chips > even if we don't have drivers for them - and even if we know we won't > ever write one for some reason. In the first case, this let us know when > a given driver should be written through user repports. In the second > case, it may prevent misdetection of the chip as one we support. >