On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Steven, > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:59:20 -0500 (CDT), Steven Timm wrote: >> >> Has anyone successfully managed to compile i2c 2.10.1 and lm_sensors >> 2.10.1 so that they work with kernels such as "2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp" as >> distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4? >> >> For some of the 2.9 version of lm_sensors there used to be >> lm_sensors-kmdl and i2c-kmdl rpms available in the ATRPMS repository >> but now I do not see those anymore. any hints are welcome. > > For 2.6 kernels, you don't need the separate module packages, > everything's already in the kernel tree. All you need is the user-space > part of lm_sensors, which is available from ATrpms: > http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/lm_sensors/ > > I guess what I am really trying to get at here is the following: If I just take the source code for the various modules I want from the lm_sensors 2.10.x tree and patch it into a 2.6.9 kernel, is it going to compile, or is the source code out there only good to compile into 2.4 kernels. Has nobody ever tried to patch the latest lm_sensors code into a 2.6.9. enterprise kernel? Under enterprise linux 3 we used to do this all the time, I don't understand why nobody has tried to do it in Enterprise linux 4. Steve Timm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 timm at fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group Lead of Computing Farms Team
