On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:28:00 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Yesterday evening I released lm-sensors 3.1.0 as planned. The numbering > reflects the presence of significant changes in this release: > > * Completely reworked sensors-detect. Support for Linux 2.4 was > dropped, devices probe order was reverted (integrated sensors first, > I2C/SMBus chips last), bus driver names are retrieved from sysfs, bus > number prediction was fixed, modules we loaded ourselves are unloaded. > The script is significantly smaller, and smarter. > * Improvements to libsensors. Circular dependencies in the > configuration file are detected and dealt with, and more importantly, > support for multiple configuration files was added. This is an important > step in the direction of automatic lm-sensors configuration. Also some > performance and memory usage improvements. Support for instantaneous > power sensors and current sensors. > * The format of /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors was changed. The new format > is easier to edit, which will ease integration with external tools. > Use the included script sysconfig-lm_sensors-convert to convert from > the old to the new format. > * New default sensors.conf file. Much lighter, with only always-correct > statements. Big performance boost, and hopefully less confusion for > the user. > * And as usual, random fixes to all tools. Phil, please copy the 2 files to your mirror. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
