> I agree, it's not handled properly; let's make it better. I see 3 > possibilities: > Yes I proposed similar, but nobody noticed that :) > 1* We display the sensor type in "sensors". This is what we do for the > IT87xxF devices. When the sensor type is "disabled", the user should > realize that the reading is meaningless. > > 2* We change sensors to not even display tempN if that sensor is > disabled. This is probably even more user-friendly. You mean during init phase? > 3* We change the w83793 driver to not present the temperature value > when the sensor is disabled. A bit more difficult, but doable. There's > something of this kind done in the f71805f hardware monitoring driver. Yes but we need to keep the control file for that. > A combination of 2 and 3 sounds best to me. Gong, what do you think? I like it. Do not create tempX_input files for disabled channels, but create channel mode files. When enabled the tempX_input will appear. Rudolf
