[lm-sensors] "Built-in" via686a sensors names

[Ian Pilcher]

The gkrellm package in Fedora Extras 6 has been patched to use
libsensors.  This causes it to fail to detect the voltage sensors on my
Abit VP6 motherboard:

[pilcher at home ~]$ gkrellm -d 0x80
--- GKrellM 2.2.9 ---
hddtemp_daemon_read: can't connect to 127.0.0.1:7634.
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/2.0V
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/2.5V
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/3.3V
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/5.0V
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/12V
libsensors error determining type for: via686a at 6000/alarms

gkrellm expects voltage sensors to to be named "inX", but it is getting
back the "built-in" names such as "2.0V", etc.  (Built-in names which,
BTW, are incorrect for my motherboard.)

While I understand the desire to provide meaningful output, this seems
to be a case where the library is being too clever by half.  Shouldn't
the library just return the "raw" name (in0, etc.) and let the human-
readable names be defined in sensors.conf?

Or am I missing something...

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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