Hi Yuan, Daan, > > > > I've tried the patch on a plain 2.6.17.1 vanilla kernel, but using the > > > > newbuilt module still doesn't show me the voltages. However on building > > > > the module with the patch applied I get the following message: > > > > > > > > WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to > > > > .init.data: from .text between 'acpi_processor_power_init' (at offset > > > > 0xf2f) and 'acpi_processor_cst_has_changed' > > > One possible reason is you need to install new lm_sensors2 user space tools. > > > If it is not this reason, i can not help you more :( > > > I still have no chance to try 2.6.17.1 kernel... > > > > No, this is a completely unrelated warning. There's something wrong in > > the acpi code, the compiler warns about it since 2.6.17 (it was already > > wrong before, but the compiler wasn't taught to detect the mistake > > until recently. > > > > So, Daan, you can ignore that warning safely. You would have the same > > warning without the patch. I have the warning too for quite some times > > now and nothing bad happened ;) Let's just hope the acpi people > > eventually show up and fix it, so that people stop being frightened! > > Hmm, sorry, i think i made a mistake that i have not snipped the "WARNING ..." part. > I know nothing about it at all ;) > > And my reply is for "doesn't show the voltage after patch w83627ehf", Ah, my mistake, I missed _that_ part of Daan's anwser ;) > Jean, why it still can not show the voltages :( For "sensors" to display the voltages, Daan will need the SVN version of lm_sensors. 2.10.0 didn't have support for them. The easiest way to verify if the patch itself worked, is to check manually in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/. If you have the in* files, it's OK, and you simply need a newer version of user-space. You can get snapshots here: http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/snapshots/ -- Jean Delvare
