Re: 2.6 - sysfs sensor nameing inconsistency

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:00:51PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 
> Attached is patch against 2.6.0-test1 that adds type_name to all in-tree 
> sensors; it sets it to the same values as corr. 2.4 senors and (in one case) 
> changes client name to match that of 2.4.
> 
> Assuming this patch (or variant thereof) is accepted I can then produce 
> libsensors patch that will easily reuse current sensors.conf. I have already 
> done it for gkrellm and as Mandrake is going to include 2.6 in next release 
> sensors support becomes more of an issue.

I like this idea, but now that the name logic has changed in the i2c
code, care to re-do this patch?  Just set the name field instead of
creating a new file in sysfs.

Sound ok?

thanks,

greg k-h