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From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] VRM value in libsensors/sensors
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:48:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4684F173.4070606@hhs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070629134434.66d96ab3@hyperion.delvare>

Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am thinking of removing SENSORS_FEATURE_VRM from the new libsensors.
> A first reason for that is that the newer VRM codes as used in the 2.6
> kernel are arbitrary numbers and don't match the Intel specification
> numbers as the first ones did. So we may display things like "VRM
> version 1.3" and that's confusing because it doesn't correspond to
> anything real. A second reason is that Rudolf Marek added code to set
> the VRM version automatically depending on the CPU model some times ago
> already, and it works very well, so the users no longer have to care
> about VRM versions.
> 
> I would even go as far as switching the vrm attribute of the hwmon
> kernel drivers to read-only... or even remove them entirely.
> 

I think that removing VRM support is a good idea, its called libsensors, so 
lets stick to sensors.

Regards,

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 11:44 [lm-sensors] VRM value in libsensors/sensors Jean Delvare
2007-06-29 11:48 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2007-06-29 17:52 ` Juerg Haefliger
2007-06-29 21:08 ` Jean Delvare

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