Is the w83792d chip one of those supported in the newer 2.6 kernels? that's the main one I need that the current redhat distro kernel doesn't have. Also, which version of the Linus' 2.6 kernel tree should I point them at to get the current production code level? Steve Timm On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Jean Delvare wrote: > > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
