On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:17:08AM -0600, Steven Timm wrote: > 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. Of course, that happens from time to time by the distribution vendor. I already posted a bugzilla entry of a previous kernel merge: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171507 And if you look into the current src.rpm you'll find the patch to 2.6.9 of lm_sensors' code of that time. What you really want is to notify RH about the need for updating this patch against recent lm_sensors' code and hope to get it approved to enter the next kernel errata. If you are in a hurry you don't need to wait until RH's QA is done, usually the upcoming kernel rpms & patches are released at J. Baron's redhat.com web space. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20061030/ab6805b3/attachment.bin
