[lm-sensors] sensors.conf for supermicro x7dbe+

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Gong,

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:59:05 +0800, JGong at winbond.com wrote:
> 
> Hi, Noah 
> >> En, you can try this one to see the temp6 mode:
> >> 
> >> cat /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/w83793/0-002f/temp6_type
> 
> >'0'
> 
> Ok, that is to say, the temp6 channel is disabled, and you can ignore
> the temp6 readings by adding one line "ignore temp6" into your
> sensors.conf.
> 
> By now, I am sorry that the w83793 driver has done nothing with the
> disabled temperature channel situation. :(

I agree, it's not handled properly; let's make it better. I see 3
possibilities:

1* We display the sensor type in "sensors". This is what we do for the
IT87xxF devices. When the sensor type is "disabled", the user should
realize that the reading is meaningless.

2* We change sensors to not even display tempN if that sensor is
disabled. This is probably even more user-friendly.

3* We change the w83793 driver to not present the temperature value
when the sensor is disabled. A bit more difficult, but doable. There's
something of this kind done in the f71805f hardware monitoring driver.

A combination of 2 and 3 sounds best to me. Gong, what do you think?
Can you please propose patches?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare