On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:31:54 +0200, Bruno Pr?mont wrote: > sidenote: I would appreciate if libsensors also knew about PWM :)) This was discussed when designing libsensors 3.0.0 and we voted against it, for the reason that PWM outputs are not sensors. The interface needed to control fans is significantly different from what is needed for sensors. Sensor limits are initialized once, while PWM values are likely to evolve (based on temperature for example). Sensor values often need scaling (in particular voltage) and giving them a proper label is important. PWM values need no scaling factor and labelling them doesn't sound too useful either. So the needs are clearly different. Also, it's easy to get things wrong (including permanent hardware damage) when playing with PWM, while playing with sensors is normally safe. So while it makes sense to have a sensors library for GUI apps to interface with, I don't see a need for this for PWM. As a matter of fact, our software fan control daemon is a simple bash script, it doesn't need any library. > Are there other changes between the driver's hardware knowledge and > revision 8? 2 additional fans inputs, like the IT8716F and IT8718F have. Basically the latest incarnations of the IT8712F have a lot in common with the IT8716F. I don't get the point of ITE doing this, but they did, so we'll have to support it. We add the missing features when users ask for them... as you did. -- Jean Delvare
