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From: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:29:21 +0000
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Modifying sensors-detect: add DMI support
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Ivo Manca wrote:
> Hey Jean, Hans,
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> As you both know, I've submitted some patches which add DMI support to=20
> lm-sensors quite a while ago. For reference, they can be found at:=20
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/13793
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> I believe the main reason these patches have not been included yet, is=20
> (besides the usual lack of time) the fact that there is not yet a=20
> website available. As discussed in this thread=20
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/14562 , Hans=20
> suggested using the wiki pages as a first version.
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> Even though I would prefer a dedicated website, I now do believe that=20
> Hans is right, and modifying the wiki's and add DMI information to the=20
> configurations there, might be a good way to get 'the ball rolling'.=20
> Once it starts to get popular, we can switch to a dedicated website.
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> I believe that making one is not too hard of a job (it's not rocket=20
> science after all..) and I've already made a begin for it. However, for=20
> the time being, I would rather spend my time on respinning and revising=20
> the previous patches and writing an (obviously) relative easy script=20
> that's able to walk through the wiki and fetch the configuration files=20
> from there.
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> If it=92s possible to add the needed information to these entries, I=92m =

> more than willing to get working on the mentioned parts
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> For now, all I really need is the following information for the=20
> configurations:
> * needed modules
> * dmi information: system-manufacturer, system-product-name,=20
> system-version, baseboard-manufacturer, baseboard-product-name,=20
> baseboard-version,
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> I suppose that should do it. I don=92t really have a strong favor of how =

> this information is added, but I would suggest it to be something like:
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> # modprobe module1 parameter1 parameter2 parameter3
> # modprobe module2
> # system-manufacturer PCCHIPS
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+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=20
the DMI info (as comments) to the .cfg file snippets, then I'll add that as=
ap.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

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