R J Thompson <rjt@linuxworks.co.uk> wrote:
> Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>> "Nicholas Marriott" <nicNOSPAM@ufie.org.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:44c728cf@212.67.96.135...
>>> On -current, you can use sysctl hw.serialno (CTL_HW, HW_UUID) [to
>>> get a id unique to a computer - Joachim]
> I am running 3.8, do you know if this feature can be back-ported at all?

Probably not worth the effort, the sensors framework is quite a bit of
code that was added in 3.9 - there is very little trace of it in 3.8.

Of course, I'm neither a coder nor familiar with the code in question -
it just might integrate very easily. But upgrading to 3.9 will probably
be easier.

Joachim