[lm-sensors] Sensors-detect with DMI detection

[Hans de Goede]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Ivo,
> 
> 
> This sounds like a good plan, however I'd like to make sure that you do
> not duplicate efforts that have been going on in this area:
> 
> 
> 2* Back in September 2006, Ivan Barrera proposed something named
> "sconfig" which looked very similar to your own proposal:
> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-September/017623.html
> Unfortunately, nobody paid attention to this, despite the fact that
> everybody seems to agree that such a tool is highly needed. So maybe
> you want to look at whan Ivan did and/or take contact with him.
> 

Actually I did pay attention, as Ivan was doing this for a Google Summer of 
Code project, which was initiated by my from under the Fedora project umbrella.

Since I was Ivan's mentor that project I did closely follow his work, but 
unfortunately his results where not all that I had hoped for. Hence this new 
attempt, with lessons learned from the Ivan story. I've already given my 
students a link to the website where Ivan's stuff is hosted and told them to 
take a look at the things done and source code created by Ivan as a start.

Regards,

Hans