"Mark M. Hoffman" wrote: > > * Mark D. Studebaker <mds at paradyne.com> [2003-10-22 20:32:55 -0400]: > <snip> > > > > The new driver is isa-only and includes super i/o > > detection, so that the isa address is always discovered. > > This makes the new driver much better at finding a chip. > > Is this just ISA PnP? I have no experience with that. > I don't know PnP so I don't know. You can look in the driver or in sensors-detect to see what super i/o looks like. If there's a real name for it I don't know what it is. I just followed the super i/o datasheets then realized all the chips were similar. > <snip> > > > Why are those enormous tables present in libsensors at all? > And then again what is the point of libsensors if the > sensors program needs special code for each driver? Yuck. > I guess I should go read the source of gkrellm and see what > they're doing. > > Agreed that libsensors is problematic. One reason why I've pushed for and documented firm /proc standards as an alternative.
