On 05/07/13 12:20, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Alexey,
On Sun, 05 May 2013 19:42:44 +0600, Alexey Vazhnov wrote:
Perhaps we can check many hardware for compatibility with Linux.
Condition: test must be fast, so no manual intervention. So now I
prepare some PXE images for collect hardware information. How do I
collect maximum information about motherboards chips compatible with
lm-sensors? Currently I see only one variant — write motherboard name
with «sensors» stdout.
"sensors" alone will only give you values for the few hwmon drivers
which are auto-loaded. Most are not though, so you'd have to run
sensors-detect first, then start the lm_sensors service so that the
required drivers are loaded, and only then check the output of
"sensors".
Unfortunately at the moment sensors-detect is an interactive script. I
tried implementing an automatic mode [1] but never got any feedback
from it.
[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/lm-sensors/msg37171.html
I have rebased my patch, you can download a version of
sensors-detect with option --auto at:
http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/lm-sensors/sensors-detect
Note that this isn't necessarily safe as the internal logic may
lead to potentially dangerous probes being attempted. See the WARNING
section in sensors-detect(8). This makes me wonder if what you are
trying to achieve is really a good idea. Once a year, we have a user
complaining that sensors-detect damaged their hardware...
Guenter, what do you think? Is this valuable enough and I should commit
this, and we can improve it over time? Or just too dangerous and I
should delete this patch ASAP and forget about the whole idea forever?
Sounds good, I try to use your patch.
--
Yours respectfully,
Alexey Vazhnov
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