VRM value in libsensors/sensors

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Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am thinking of removing SENSORS_FEATURE_VRM from the new libsensors.
> A first reason for that is that the newer VRM codes as used in the 2.6
> kernel are arbitrary numbers and don't match the Intel specification
> numbers as the first ones did. So we may display things like "VRM
> version 1.3" and that's confusing because it doesn't correspond to
> anything real. A second reason is that Rudolf Marek added code to set
> the VRM version automatically depending on the CPU model some times ago
> already, and it works very well, so the users no longer have to care
> about VRM versions.
> 
> I would even go as far as switching the vrm attribute of the hwmon
> kernel drivers to read-only... or even remove them entirely.
> 

I think that removing VRM support is a good idea, its called libsensors, so 
lets stick to sensors.

Regards,

Hans





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