Jean Delvare wrote: > Jasper, please don't send HTML-only e-mails to the lm-sensors list. > > Jasper Alias wrote: >> Agreed we should be able to include both base info and >> system info into the system. Maybe we can check the values in >> those fields and then let the system decide with of the two >> contains the most sensible info and select that info field to >> be used. > > It might be non-trivial to determine which fields contain relevant > information and which do not. If the fields are empty it's clear they > aren't relevant, but sometimes vendors put random crap in the fields > instead, such as "None" or "System Manufacturer" or "To Be Filled By > O.E.M.". Anyway, as Hans suggested, we don't really need to find out > which fields are most relevant. We can use all four fields as the key > to identify the motherboard, if parts of the key aren't meaningful it > doesn't really matter. > Exactly, except when the whole key isn't relevant, iow all 4 Fields contain crap / are to generic to uniquely identify a motherboard. That is why we need a queue on the website for new motherboard dmi-info + lm-sensors-config submissions, and that queue needs to be checked manually, we cannot expect well meaning end-users to make the decission of the DMI info is unique enough. And on top of that a rating system where people can say, good config works for me too, or crappy config doesn't work. Regards, Hans
