From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] xsensors ported to the future libsensors
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:14:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A4E206.7090507@hhs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070720213455.644b5f50@hyperion.delvare>
Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:06:02 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> I'm curious how gnome sensors-applet and gkrellm managed to use the
>>> current libsensors without chip-specific code at all, as it definitely
>>> wasn't designed to be used that way.
>> They both basically have there own version of sensors_get_feature_type, both
>> assuming to be running on a 2.6 kernel, and thus have sysfs interface standard
>> feature names.
>
> I'm surprised, as the feature names exposed by libsensors are the old
> (non-standard) ones, even for 2.6 kernels. The mapping to the new
> symbols is internal as far as I can see. "sensors -u" returns the old
> feature names. So I guess they assume that old names are somewhat
> standard, and it doesn't work for all drivers?
>
Correct, but gkrellm does for example contain code to also work with the
via686a 2.0V style volt feature names
Regards,
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 19:34 [lm-sensors] xsensors ported to the future libsensors Jean Delvare
2007-07-20 20:33 ` Hans de Goede
2007-07-22 15:36 ` Jean Delvare
2007-07-22 18:06 ` Hans de Goede
2007-07-23 16:58 ` Jean Delvare
2007-07-23 17:14 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
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