Ivo Manca wrote: > Hey Jean, Hans, > > As you both know, I've submitted some patches which add DMI support to > lm-sensors quite a while ago. For reference, they can be found at: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/13793 > > I believe the main reason these patches have not been included yet, is > (besides the usual lack of time) the fact that there is not yet a > website available. As discussed in this thread > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/14562 , Hans > suggested using the wiki pages as a first version. > > Even though I would prefer a dedicated website, I now do believe that > Hans is right, and modifying the wiki's and add DMI information to the > configurations there, might be a good way to get 'the ball rolling'. > Once it starts to get popular, we can switch to a dedicated website. > > I believe that making one is not too hard of a job (it's not rocket > science after all..) and I've already made a begin for it. However, for > the time being, I would rather spend my time on respinning and revising > the previous patches and writing an (obviously) relative easy script > that's able to walk through the wiki and fetch the configuration files > from there. > > If it?s possible to add the needed information to these entries, I?m > more than willing to get working on the mentioned parts > > For now, all I really need is the following information for the > configurations: > * needed modules > * dmi information: system-manufacturer, system-product-name, > system-version, baseboard-manufacturer, baseboard-product-name, > baseboard-version, > > I suppose that should do it. I don?t really have a strong favor of how > this information is added, but I would suggest it to be something like: > > # modprobe module1 parameter1 parameter2 parameter3 > # modprobe module2 > # system-manufacturer PCCHIPS > +1 I have dmi info for quite a few motherboards for which we already have cfg files on the wiki, sitting in my mailbox, so if we can agree on a format to add the DMI info (as comments) to the .cfg file snippets, then I'll add that asap. Thanks & Regards, Hans
