Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Hans, > >>> I don't know of any better ways to automatically identify mainboards. >>> However, I've been mulling over an idea to make manual configuration >>> easier. Rather than distribute a single giant sensors.conf.eg as we >>> do now, we could distribute a tree of conf files, one per board: >>> >>> /etc/sensors/ >>> /etc/sensors/asus/ >>> /etc/sensors/asus/p4s333.conf >>> /etc/sensors/asus/p4c800-e-deluxe.conf >> I personally think this is a good idea, but how big will this become? >> Any idea how many motherboards there are out there? lots but how much? > > The Motherboard Monitor project had around 1100 known motherboards when > it stopped 2 years ago. So depending on how successful we get, the > number of configuration files could range from a few hundreds to 2000 > or so. > Say worst case scenario is 2000 files each taking 4kb that sums up to 8Mb diskspace, sounds acceptable to me, what do others think? Regards, Hans
