Hi Steven, On 10/30/2006, Steven Timm wrote: > 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 It's important that you understand that there is no relation between the drivers in the lm_sensors package, which are for Linux 2.4, and the i2c and hardware monitoring drivers in the Linux 2.6 kernel tree. This is completely different code, and support for some chips is available on one side and not on the other side. And this is going to diverge even more in the future, as the 2.4 kernel driver set is more or less in maintenance mode and newer hardware is rather unlikely to be ever supported on 2.4 kernels. So if you're going to ask Red Hat to add support for some hardware monitoring devices to their RHEL4 product, do not ask them to add lm_sensors 2.10.x drivers, it simply doesn't make sense. Instead, ask them to backport hardware monitoring drivers from later 2.6 kernels. They might have to also update user-space support from the lm_sensors project for these backported drivers, but that's a separate issue. -- Jean Delvare
