Re: 2.6 - sysfs sensor nameing inconsistency

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 16:08:20 EST


On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:00:51PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> Attached is patch against 2.6.0-test1 that adds type_name to all in-tree
> sensors; it sets it to the same values as corr. 2.4 senors and (in one case)
> changes client name to match that of 2.4.
>
> Assuming this patch (or variant thereof) is accepted I can then produce
> libsensors patch that will easily reuse current sensors.conf. I have already
> done it for gkrellm and as Mandrake is going to include 2.6 in next release
> sensors support becomes more of an issue.

I like this idea, but now that the name logic has changed in the i2c
code, care to re-do this patch? Just set the name field instead of
creating a new file in sysfs.

Sound ok?

thanks,

greg k-h
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