On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:48:54 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Another key question: Can I remove the vrm attribute entirely from all drivers, > and/or can I even make it read-only, without going through the feature removal > process ? It is documented in the ABI, and libsensors supports it. It is documented in the ABI as an attribute which can exist, not one which is mandatory. Thus removing it shouldn't break anything. As far as libsensors is concerned, version from lm-sensors 3.x does _not_ know of VRM. At all. I already did not like the implementation back when I converted libsensors to make use of the standard sysfs interface, so I decided to not include it :) Version from lm-sensors 2.x does support it, but at least in the latest version it is printed through a common helper function (print_vid_info) which will silently skip the VRM value if not readable. So we're safe here too. > Maybe I should only apply the patch to hwmon-vid.c now, and schedule vrm removal > for something like 2013 ? I'm fine both ways, thought 2013, is probably too far away. I really have no problem with you killing this whole legacy thing right now if you feel like it, but if you prefer to announce it now and do it in 6 months, that's up to you really. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
