Hi Ian, On 10/31/2006, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > This is a bug in Fedora and/or gkrellm. What do you expect from us by > > reporting it on the lm_sensors list? > > I guess it would be a bug in gkrellm, since it's making the assumption > that a voltage sensor will be named "inX". OTOH, I'm not really sure > what else an application is supposed to do, since there doesn't appear > to be an API to determine the type of a sensor. Indeed, this part is missing from the current API, has been identified as such, and should be added in a near future. Right now, applications must either include device-specific code to format the values properly (as sensors does), or display only numbers without units (as sensors -u does). I guess this is the major reason why the author of gkrellm never wanted to use libsensors in the first place. > Mostly, I wanted to start a discussion about whether the current > behavior is useful. From what you say about 2.11.0, it sounds like the > problems it causes have been recognized, which is good news. The current behavior must be somewhat useful, as a dozen applications have been using it for many years. But it's admittedly suboptimal. Something better should be available soon (say mid-2007), making it possible for application authors to write only generic code and still handle all devices propely with nicely formatted output (Linux 2.6 only.) -- Jean Delvare
