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[Hans de Goede]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) said: 
>> We (the lm_sensors) project have long had plans to fix 2 and 3 together by 
>> using dmi BIOS strings to identify the motherboard (circa 80% of 
>> motherboards have usable id strings, some contain useless strings like "To 
>> be filled by OEM"), and then have a database with know good configs for 
>> tried and proven motherboards. We already have a small database of config 
>> files here:
>> http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations
>>
>> And for quite a few of those I have a mailfolder with dmidecode dumps 
>> providing the strings. There have been several projects already to try to 
>> get a system like this developed (should be trivial really), but none has 
>> lifted of, the main problem being lack of time, we really need someone to 
>> pull the cart on this one. Contributers much welcome!
> 
> If you can get the DMI data that describes the layout & modules
> needed, why wouldn't you put this in the modules themselves?
> 

Because there are a gazillion motherboards and more manufactured every day. I'm 
active as contributer to the kernel part of lm_sensors, and I don't think this 
will be received well. Esp since such tables will require lots of maintainance 
and thus are best kept in userspace imho.

Regards,

Hans