if you do 'make -k' then make will keep going after an error, then you should be able to get your w83781d fix compiled. Jean Delvare wrote: >>I do not have the time to update my old SuSE to the newest release 8.1 >> >>although I tenure the 8.1 distribution of SuSE. Maybe I can do the >>update in january. > > > I think you can update the kernel and the kernel tools without updating > the whole system. I don't know SuSE, but all other distributions I know > (Slackware, Red Hat, Debian) let the user do so. > > >>But I do not understand why the parse error has something to do with >>my kernel source. > > > We do include some header files from linux/include, which define some > structures or types we use in our code. If these definitions are "wrong" > (or at least, are not what we think they are) it can annoy the compiler > enough to lead to the result you had. And I doubt we'll change our code > to make it compile with the early 2.4 kernel sources. > > >>It's is not neccessary to install lm_sensors 2.7.0 because my hardware >>is supported by the older version of lm_sensors. The only thing I'm >>affected by 2.7.0 is a bugfix in the w83781d modul (initialization of >>in0/in1). But I think this fix can be backported to the 2.6.5 which I >>will try in the next days. > > > Yes, should work also. >
