Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: > Because sensors are not plug and play, unfortunatly they are not plug > and play at all. They are either on an i2c bus which doesn't do plug and > play or on the isa bus without isapnp support, so there is no way to > automagicly find which sensor chips there are, even if you manage to > find out which sensor chips there are, there is no way to find out > whioch voltage / temp / fan is connected to which input, and if they are > divided (using resistors) before being connected. > > Luckily they are however usually soldered onto the motherboard, so which > chips there are and how they are hooked up is fixed for a given > motherboard. Hence the idea to use a database with this info per (known) > motherboard and a tool which uses this database to generate the correct > configuration. I'm somewhat talking out of my ass here, but: Then, have platform devices that export DMI info, and add the proper DMI aliases mbASUSPXV (or whatever) so the modules can be autoloaded. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
