On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:17:34 -0500 (EST), Jaromir Capik wrote: > > I admit that dying in this case is a little abrupt. That being said, > > without /dev/port, you won't be able to detect Super-I/O chips, ISA > > chips and I/O-based IPMI interfaces, which only leave you with > > I2C/SMBus-based, PCI-based and MSR-based sensors. Are there really > > systems out there without /dev/proc where any of these is present? > > Yes, such systems exist. I had the pleasure to debug the issue > directly on 2 systems where the /dev/port was missing, but > I2C bus was present. One of the systems even didn't have > any PCI bus. And I believe that we can expect more hardware > like that in the future. With ARM based boards even more oddities > can appear. The detection script needs to be as flexible > as possible to handle such situations. OK, thanks for the information. I do agree about flexibility, as long as is is needed and not "just because we can". -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
