Quoting myself... On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:46:48 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > One thing that worries me is the hwmon device name. It comes directly > from the thermal zone's type ("ACPI thermal zone" in the ACPI case".) > We have no control over that name, while libsensors makes some > assumptions on it. For example it assumes that there is no dash in a > hwmon device name. So far, all hwmon device names also didn't have > spaces, nor uppercase letters, and were much shorter (ACPI thermal zone > would be something like "acpi_tz".) I hope that applications didn't > make too many assumptions on length or content... > > I'm not sure yet if and how we want to address this problem. Maybe we > could have a "short name" field in struct thermal_zone_device. Or > alternatively I could add a conversion function to libsensors, that > would convert "ACPI thermal zone" to "acpi_thermal_zone". The latter > approach doesn't help with the length, but at least it normalizes the > character set. Oh, I now see that you addressed the problem in patch 3/3, so you can forget about what I wrote above. Thank you :) -- Jean Delvare