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Is the w83792d chip one of those supported in the newer 2.6 kernels?
thats the main one I need that the current redhat distro kernel doesnt
have.
Also, which version of the Linus 2.6 kernel tree should I point them at
to get the current production code level?
Steve Timm
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Steven,
On 10/30/2006, Steven Timm wrote:
J. Barons latest patch still reflects a pre-2.9.x version of
lm_sensors as far as I can tell. I will try to open
a ticket with Red Hat on this. Thanks
Its important that you understand that there is no relation between the
drivers in the lm_sensors package, which are for Linux 2.4, and the i2c
and hardware monitoring drivers in the Linux 2.6 kernel tree. This is
completely different code, and support for some chips is available on
one side and not on the other side. And this is going to diverge even
more in the future, as the 2.4 kernel driver set is more or less in
maintenance mode and newer hardware is rather unlikely to be ever
supported on 2.4 kernels.
So if youre going to ask Red Hat to add support for some hardware
monitoring devices to their RHEL4 product, do not ask them to add
lm_sensors 2.10.x drivers, it simply doesnt make sense. Instead, ask
them to backport hardware monitoring drivers from later 2.6 kernels.
They might have to also update user-space support from the lm_sensors
project for these backported drivers, but thats a separate issue.
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Jean Delvare
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