Re: [lm-sensors] Modifying sensors-detect: add DMI support

[Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>]

Ivo Manca wrote:
> Hey Jean, Hans,
> 
> As you both know, I've submitted some patches which add DMI support to 
> lm-sensors quite a while ago. For reference, they can be found at: 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/13793
> 
> I believe the main reason these patches have not been included yet, is 
> (besides the usual lack of time) the fact that there is not yet a 
> website available. As discussed in this thread 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/14562 , Hans 
> suggested using the wiki pages as a first version.
> 
> Even though I would prefer a dedicated website, I now do believe that 
> Hans is right, and modifying the wiki's and add DMI information to the 
> configurations there, might be a good way to get 'the ball rolling'. 
> Once it starts to get popular, we can switch to a dedicated website.
> 
> I believe that making one is not too hard of a job (it's not rocket 
> science after all..) and I've already made a begin for it. However, for 
> the time being, I would rather spend my time on respinning and revising 
> the previous patches and writing an (obviously) relative easy script 
> that's able to walk through the wiki and fetch the configuration files 
> from there.
> 
> If it’s possible to add the needed information to these entries, I’m 
> more than willing to get working on the mentioned parts
> 
> For now, all I really need is the following information for the 
> configurations:
> * needed modules
> * dmi information: system-manufacturer, system-product-name, 
> system-version, baseboard-manufacturer, baseboard-product-name, 
> baseboard-version,
> 
> I suppose that should do it. I don’t really have a strong favor of how 
> this information is added, but I would suggest it to be something like:
> 
> # modprobe module1 parameter1 parameter2 parameter3
> # modprobe module2
> # system-manufacturer PCCHIPS
> 

+1

I have dmi info for quite a few motherboards for which we already have cfg 
files on the wiki, sitting in my mailbox, so if we can agree on a format to add 
the DMI info (as comments) to the .cfg file snippets, then I'll add that asap.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

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