Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > Not to discourage you from working on the scanner, every additional > improvement is welcome... But just to underline the well known fact > that sensors.conf.eg has grown much larger than the original authors of > libsensors thought it ever would, and as a result 95% of the > configuration file we install by default is useless for each user, and > ruins the "sensors" performance. This means that we really need > dedicated configuration files for people to use instead of the default > configuration file. > > Other possible approachs: > * Having a smaller dedicated configuration file which would only > contain the safest defaults (chip manufacturer recommended compute > lines and labels). The rest could be moved to documentation. > * Having a separate default file for each chip, and copying it (or > merging them) to /etc/sensors.conf when the user runs sensors-detect. > * Delaying the scanning of the configuration data until after we know > which chips have been found of the system. So we could happily skip > the data which has not been found. > > Or maybe it's more interesting to put our energy in the configuration > files database, and let the default configuration file as is in the > hope that people won't use it anymore anyway. > > something like this ? [jimc at harpo lm-sensors]$ ls etc/sensors.conf.d/ abituguru adm9240 fscpos k8temp lm85c maxilife smsc47m192 w83697hf adm1021 as99127f fscscy lm63 lm87 mtp008 via686a w83782d adm1024 asb100 gl518sm lm75 lm90 pc87366 vt1211 w83783s adm1025 bmc gl520sm lm78 lm92 pcf8591 vt8231 w83792d adm1030 f71805f it87 lm80 lm99 sis5595 w83627ehf w83793 adm1031 fscher it8716 lm83 max1619 smsc47m1 w83627thf w83l785ts assuming yes, attached script will do the scut-work. Before you use it for real, the sensors.conf.eg file needs some comments moved below the "chip <foo>" lines they pertain to, otherwize theyre written into the wrong file. I'll do that juggling if you want to go this route. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: split-sensors Url: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20060907/d76a67f6/attachment.pl
