Wow, fast replies :-) Ok, thanks for such a nice and fast answer, I can wait 2.6.4 to be ready BTW, you can mail me whenever you want for testing Thanks again Romain Goyet PS : Merci encore ;-) mercredi 25 f?vrier 2004, ? 11:21 pm, Jean Delvare a ?crit : >> Hi I have a motherboard wich uses an it87. My problem is that the >> latest linux kernel (2.6.3) includes a driver for this chip, but that >> driver is older than the one included in latest lm_sensors : in >> effect, it lacks support for it87_reset, which is implemented in >> latest lm_sensors and which is really usefull. It also lacks >> FanGuardian (aka SmartFan), which is also really usefull, and already >> implemented in lm_sensors 2.8.4. >> >> I ABSOLUTELY needed to be able to boot without reseting the it87, so >> I manually patched the vanilla kernel (I simply removed the >> corresponding line), but the SmartGuardian feature still isn't there. > > Takeru Komoriya is working on porting the changes from our CVS > repository to Linux 2.6. Temperature sensor types setting is already > done [1], reset is in good shape but need some rework, and we'll work > on > the Guardian thing right after that. With a bit of luck, we should > equal > the level of functionality of the CVS driver as soon as in Linux 2.6.4. > >> Anyway; thanks for such an awesome project > > Thanks :) > > [1] > http://delvare.nerim.net/i2c/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.2-rc2-i2c-it87- > sensor-type.diff > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ >