I do believe we already have a patch where I work. I'll send it to the list in a moment. In need to hunt it down. If we don't have one I'll let you know, but I'm pretty sure we do...james On 10/23/06, D.J. Barrow <barrow_dj at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Mark/Eric & others, > I am looking at backporting the lm93 driver > ( lm93-driver-2.6.13-rc3-mm3-0001.bin ) to Linux version 2.6.9-34 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to meet a customer requirement. > > The biggest problem with the port to date seems to be incompatible sysfs apis. > The attr stuff below being the primary source of the problems I think. > struct device_attribute *attr > struct sensor_device_attribute *s_attr = to_sensor_dev_attr(attr); > How would one go about dealing with this? > > sensors -v is reporting the following version > sensors version 2.8.7 with libsensors version 2.8.7 > > Do the kernel drivers & the user applications libsensors have to be matched, > is the driver interface exposed to libsensors stable? > Is backporting a bad idea as the libsensors etc. now > have to be modified to support the new lm93 driver & left the same > in parts to suppport the older sensor drivers. > > If you advise we move to the latest kernel & sensors user applications we will > need to upgrade other drivers, do any of you know if there will be glibc compatibility > issues on upgrading the kernel. > > Thanks in advance for your help, > D.J. Barrow > > > D.J. Barrow Linux kernel developer > email: dj_barrow at ariasoft.ie > email(work) denis.barrow at thalescomputers.fr > Work: +33-498-163412 > Home: +353-22-47196. > Mobile (IRL) +353-(0)86 1715438 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors >
