Hello Jean, Hans, a long time ago we've spoken about "DMI-based configuration". Unfortunately the last half year I only had a very reduced amount of time. But today I send my first proposal (patch) for this issue :) A few words... The tool is written in Python. I hope you can live with this although this is another language in the lm-sensors project. I like the object oriented modules of Python and IMHO Python should be installed on every machine in a default installation. What can you do with this tool? 1. Download config files from lm-sensors.org and build an archive 2. Install this archive into the file system (the path is hard-coded so far) 3. List the vendors off the available configs 4. List the board configs of a vendor 5. Install a config by vendor and board name 6. Show your systems' DMI data 7. Search a config based on the DMI data and install them 8. Remove the configs from the file system NOTE: This is an early version. There are plenty of ToDos and probably some bugs. This is a request for comments what do you thing about the tool. And now a short introduction. To see a short help type ./sensors-config.py -h Download and build archive ============================= 1. First you have to create an directory for downloading. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect$ mkdir configs 2. Change to this directory andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect$ cd configs/ 3. Download the configs and build archive andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ ../sensors-config.py -t Fetch config for Evga/x58-SLI Fetch config for ASRock/AM2NF3-VSTA Fetch config for Epox/M1697 Fetch config for Epox/MF4-Ultra3 Fetch config for Abit/AA8-DuraMAX Fetch config for Abit/AA8XE-Fatal1ty Fetch config for Abit/AI7 Fetch config for Abit/AN7 Fetch config for Abit/AN8-SLI Fetch config for Abit/AV8 Fetch config for Abit/AX8 Fetch config for Abit/Aa7-Max Fetch config for Abit/Ag7 Fetch config for Abit/KN9-Ultra Fetch config for Abit/KV8-MAX3 Fetch config for Abit/Kv8Pro Fetch config for Abit/VA-20 Fetch config for DFI/CFX3200-M2-G-infinity Fetch config for DFI/Lanparty NF4 Expert Fetch config for DFI/Lanparty UT 790FX Fetch config for Asus/KFN4-DRE Fetch config for Asus/M2N-SLI Deluxe The files are downloaded, some of unneeded "data" is stripped and an tarball is build in the same directory. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ ls -l insgesamt 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Abit drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 ASRock drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Asus -rw-r--r-- 1 andre andre 5569 2010-01-13 21:11 configuration.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 DFI drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Epox drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Evga This behaviour should be optimized. The directory should be created automatically and the configs should be removed. At the moment only a few configs are fetch from lm-sensors.org. Look at the configs hash in the source code. Install the configuration from the archive ========================================== andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ sudo \ ../sensors-config.py -a configuration.tar.gz This installs the configs to /usr/local/share/sensors/conf. So far the path is hard-coded. This should be changed. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ ls -l \ /usr/local/share/sensors/conf/ insgesamt 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Abit drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 ASRock drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Asus drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 DFI drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Epox drwxr-xr-x 2 andre andre 4096 2010-01-13 21:11 Evga List the available configurations ================================= To list all the vendors use -l option. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ \ ../sensors-config.py -l ASRock Abit Asus DFI Epox Evga To list the boards of a given vendor use -b option. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ \ ../sensors-config.py -b Abit AA8-DuraMAX AA8XE-Fatal1ty AI7 AN7 AN8-SLI AV8 AX8 Aa7-Max Ag7 KN9-Ultra KV8-MAX3 Kv8Pro VA-20 Install a configuration ======================= You can manually install a configuration use -i option and an argument in the format VENDOR/BOARD. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ sudo \ ../sensors-config.py -i Abit/VA-20 This install the VA-20 config from Abit into /etc/sensors.d. ATTENTION: This will overwrite all the existing configs in /etc/sensors.d. You can also install a config based on DMI data. To show your systems' DMI data use -d. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ ../sensors-config.py -d board_name: 8918DFG board_vendor: LENOVO board_version: Not Available chassis_type: 10 product_name: 8918DFG product_version: ThinkPad R61 sys_vendor: LENOVO To search for a suitable config use -f. There are two options to find a config although there is no one suitable for your DMI data. Use option -V VENDOR and -B BOARD to overwrite the systems' DMI data. So you can simulate another machine. andre@andre-laptop:~/src/sensors/prog/detect/configs$ sudo \ ../sensors-config.py -f -V Abit -B VA-20 Found a suitable configuration: Abit/VA-20 Do you want to install this configuration? [y/N]: y This will delete older configurations. Do you want to proceed? [y/N]: y Now the VA-20 config file should be installed in /etc/sensors.d. Ok, that's for the moment. There are much work left. Have fun and I'de be happy to hear from you. Thanks, Andre _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
