Mobo-specific config files

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Is this any better than the current situation
of having commented-out sections in sensors.conf.eg.
Won't it be a lot of work to maintain the subdirectory?
Or is this a good step toward a new libsensors that
has better configuration...

Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I plan to create a "mobo" directory under lm_sensors2/etc, where we
> could store mobo-specific configuration files. It's not meant to be
> exhaustive, but at least it would be a placeholder for config files sent
> by the users. There have been several attempts to do this using
> databases and web forms so that the users can feed the base without our
> help, but none of them succeeded. So maybe hosting the files ourselves
> would be better.
> 
> I plan to have a single, flat list of files in the subdirectory, in the
> form <manufacturer>-<model>.conf. It could also be possible to have a
> subdirectory for each manufacturer. I have no strong opinion.
> 
> The reason why I propose this now is that manufacturers using the PC87366
> chip did not follow National's recommendations for input voltages, so
> the configurations for the three motherboards I know about as of now
> have almost nothing in common. I'd like to have separate configuration
> files for these.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jean
> 
> 



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Hardware Monitoring]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]

  Powered by Linux