On Saturday 16 August 2003 00:51, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:00:51PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > Attached is patch against 2.6.0-test1 that adds type_name to all in-tree
> > sensors; it sets it to the same values as corr. 2.4 senors and (in one
> > case) changes client name to match that of 2.4.
> >
> > Assuming this patch (or variant thereof) is accepted I can then produce
> > libsensors patch that will easily reuse current sensors.conf. I have
> > already done it for gkrellm and as Mandrake is going to include 2.6 in
> > next release sensors support becomes more of an issue.
>
> I like this idea, but now that the name logic has changed in the i2c
> code, care to re-do this patch?  Just set the name field instead of
> creating a new file in sysfs.
>

something like attached patch? I like it as well :)

note that in 2.6.0-test3 name in sysfs is empty. I had to add a chunk to 
i2c-core to at least test my patch. or may be I misunderstood how 
client->name is used.

regards

-andrey