diff --git a/plugins/sensors/hwmon b/plugins/sensors/hwmon
index 62b0834e..4ad3905b 100755
--- a/plugins/sensors/hwmon
+++ b/plugins/sensors/hwmon
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ my $classdir = '/sys/class/hwmon';
 my @devdirs = <$classdir/hwmon*>;
 
 if ( defined $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] eq 'autoconf' ) {
-  if ( scalar(@devdirs) > 1 ) {
+  if ( scalar(@devdirs) > 0 ) {
     print "yes\n";
   } else {
     print "no (no hwmon device found)\n";