From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl (Hans de Goede) Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:05:40 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] LM Sensors autoconfig tool project awarded as Message-Id: <447EE624.5020005@hhs.nl> 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 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