From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:48:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] VRM value in libsensors/sensors Message-Id: <4684F173.4070606@hhs.nl> List-Id: References: <20070629134434.66d96ab3@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20070629134434.66d96ab3@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors