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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:44:39 +0100
From:      Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com>
Cc:        cnst@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org, rwatson@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, imp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sensors framework continued (architecture)
Message-ID:  <20071126124438.GA77230@tirith.brixandersen.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200711261434.45765.qpadla@gmail.com>
References:  <20071109124421.3c1901b1@deskjail> <200711261434.45765.qpadla@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:34:40PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
> Just want to mention that Linux lm-sensors 3.0.0 was released today.
> A few notes that could be interesting for us:
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Quote =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> * It is now a user-space-only package, it no longer contains kernel
>   drivers.
> * The i2c tools have been moved to a separate package (surprisingly
>   named i2c-tools).
> * libsensors' internal version was bumped to 4.0.0, as it has a
>   completely new API we had to increase the .so version. This new
>   library contains no chip-specific knowledge, it assumes that hardware
>   monitoring drivers follow the standard sysfs interface. A very nice
>   benefit of this is that the size of the library has been divided by
>   4 (down from 222 kB to 55 kB on i386).
> * Some kernel drivers still don't implement the standard interface
>   for alarms, so alarm flags won't show.
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Quote =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
> So as you can see it's fully userspace non chip-specific library, based o=
n=20
> sysfs interface.=20

And it has been for quite a while, unless you compiled it on an old
Linux kernel (e.g. 2.4.x), which didn't have the required drivers.

Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@FreeBSD.org>

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