curious about alleged "compatibility" bits for lm-sensors

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Sun Nov 15 2009 - 20:08:36 EST



from drivers/i2c/Kconfig:

config I2C_COMPAT
boolean "Enable compatibility bits for old user-space"
default y
help
Say Y here if you intend to run lm-sensors 3.1.1 or older, or any
other user-space package which expects i2c adapters to be class
devices. If you don't know, say Y.

as i read it, lm-sensors 3.1.1 *is* the current version, as you can
read here:

http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Download

so how does that represent "old user-space"? i'm just curious.

rday
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