> Hello, Philip. I'm not Philip, but hey, I want to answer :p > I work for a company who has in the past used lm_sensors for > monitoring temperature in various hardware running linux, and we've > been really impressed with it. > > The problem we've got now is that we are required to use some IBM > servers, and of course lm_sensors won't run on them because of the > Thinkpad 24RF08 EPROM issue. > > The other problem we've got is that because of other software > constraints, we cannot upgrade our Linux past an approximate RedHat > 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16). This means that 1) All of IBM's proprietary > temperature monitoring stuff won't run, and 2) I am stuck using > lm_sensors/i2c 2.7.0 > > As far as I can tell so far these servers need the 'piix4' module. > > I need to know if I can disable the check for the vendorID throughout > lm_sensors, and if so how involved a change this would be, or if > someone else has already done this. I will of course only do so if > our IBM servers do not have the affected 24RF08 EPROM chip in them. > > Thanks for any help or advice you can give me on how to do this. Here you go. There are two places where you want to disable the check. In sensors-detect first, in i2c-piix4.c then. In sensors-detect, go to line 3075 and remove the call to safe_system_vendor (replace it with 0). In i2c-piix4.c, go to line 247 and remove the call to ibm_dmi_probe (replace it with 0). Note that we don't in any way endorse any consequences of following the instructions right above. The checks you will be removing have a reason to be there, bypassing them is dangerous. We are not liable for any hardware damage, nor anything else, that this could cause. However, if you decide to go on, we would be interested in learning about your experience. If you can have lm_sensors working efficiently on your system, we'll start working on a whitelist of known-to-be-safe IBM systems, so that other users will benefit of your work. Thanks! -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
