[lm-sensors] LM Sensors autoconfig tool project awarded as

[j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl (Hans de Goede)]

Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> 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?

> It might be useful to enhance libsensors so that it can process
> '#include' lines in the configuration file.  Since I have been
> working on the analyzer & parser lately... if it turns out that
> such functionality would be useful to you, I would offer to add it.
> 

Yes that would be very usefull, So that we can have a manually editable 
file for who knows what which then includes the autogenerated one or 
vica versa.

Thanks & regards,

Hans