More on hotplug issue w/HAL

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Jan 10 02:30:40 EET 2004


Matthew Mastracci (matt at aclaro.com) said: 
> >I've added that info.[category|capabilities] will be set to i2c. Btw, I
> >wonder what a desktop application would use such a device for, any
> >ideas?
> 
> A desktop motherboard monitor could detect available sensors via their 
> capabilities and dynamically generate a list of available sensor items 
> (if they appeared as "sensor").

Wouldn't all of this only work once the modules are already loaded?

Do all the sensor modules have matching PCI id (or other) information
that makes this feasible?

Bill



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