J. Baron's latest patch still reflects a pre-2.9.x version of lm_sensors as far as I can tell. I will try to open a ticket with Red Hat on this. Thanks Steve Timm On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
