Sort chips by name

[thatguystone]

It's nice to have the output of sensors be stable across reboots, and sorting by name seems pretty natural.

I'm not sure if this is the right place since it makes it part of libsensors, but it also doesn't look like it hurts anything.

[hramrach]

I think this belongs to the consumer of the data.

Does

sensors -J | jq -S .

produce a stable output?

[thatguystone]

sensors -J | jq -S .

That does produce stable output, but it's also (on my machine) 938 lines vs 89 lines from sensors, so it's not exactly usable.

[hramrach]

If you want less lines

sensors -J | sq -Sc .

is only one line, even 'better' than

sensors

[thatguystone]

Personally, I just prefer when commands produce stable output by themselves without having to pipe around.

[hramrach]

Personally I prefer that the command provides all the information, and users pick what they want to display, and in what way. That's what -J option is for.

[thatguystone]

Fair enough. This change feels rather small, so I didn't think it'd be a big deal. But it's your project, your call.

[hramrach]

The 'traditional' output is too quirky to fix.

While this particular change could work (although I am not sure about the soundness of sorting the chips) there are other problems that cannot be fixed without changing the format.