Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative

[Brisse]

Sadly I think this means I'll never see my PRIME X370-PRO getting proper sensors support in mainline Linux-kernel.

It was never supported by asus_wmi_ec_sensors because the BIOS didn't support wmi at the time the driver was developed, but a BIOS-update (not sure which exactly, but somewhat recent) added wmi-support so I'm pretty sure asus_wmi_ec_sensors could have supported this board if it was added to the driver.

Meanwhile, I don't expect the new ASUS_EC_Sensors will ever support this board.

[katt]

Looks like this new driver also has support for fans, hopefully I can finally ditch the it87 driver!

EDIT: I was mixing up asus and gigabyte drivers, guess I won't be ditching the it87 driver after all.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Short-Lived ASUS Sensors Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Better Alternative

Mainlined to the Linux kernel less than one year ago was the "asus_wmi_ec_sensors" for supporting temperature / fan speed / CPU current sensor reading on a variety of newer ASUS motherboards. That driver is now being removed as a superior driver is taking over the ASUS motherboard sensor reading duties...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-ASUS-WMI-EC-Sensors