Jean Delvare wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:06:02 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Jean Delvare wrote: >>> I'm curious how gnome sensors-applet and gkrellm managed to use the >>> current libsensors without chip-specific code at all, as it definitely >>> wasn't designed to be used that way. >> They both basically have there own version of sensors_get_feature_type, both >> assuming to be running on a 2.6 kernel, and thus have sysfs interface standard >> feature names. > > I'm surprised, as the feature names exposed by libsensors are the old > (non-standard) ones, even for 2.6 kernels. The mapping to the new > symbols is internal as far as I can see. "sensors -u" returns the old > feature names. So I guess they assume that old names are somewhat > standard, and it doesn't work for all drivers? > Correct, but gkrellm does for example contain code to also work with the via686a 2.0V style volt feature names Regards, Hans
