Comment 19 for bug 212370

Note that linux-next has a set of patches [0] by Andi Kleen which will allow udev to load modules based on CPUID features, e.g. coretemp and cpufreq drivers.
So 'autoloading' coretemp & friends (along the lines of what Steve described in #11) should be possible fairly soon - without going through sensors-detect and /etc/modules.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/19/493