Hello, I am trying to get IPMI Sensors working on kernel 2.6.16.33. I have a PenguinComputing Altus Server with inbuilt BMC, and lm-sensors suggests I need bmcsensors. Googling I followed the instructions here: http://bmcsensors-26.sourceforge.net/ It appears I need to do 2 things: (A) patch my kernel for ipmi sysfs support (B) patch my kernel again with the IPMI sensors patch I would love to just use 2.6.17 and skip (A), but I am required to use 2.6.16.33 kernel only. So: Doing (A) works so far. The patchfile contains patches for 8 files, and worked for all except the file "ipmi_si_intf.c" which failed on several chunks: patching file drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 110 with fuzz 2 (offset -2 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 196 (offset -5 lines). Hunk #3 FAILED at 984. Hunk #4 succeeded at 1183 with fuzz 2 (offset 19 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 1331 with fuzz 2 (offset 59 lines). Hunk #6 FAILED at 1915. Hunk #7 succeeded at 1929 with fuzz 1 (offset 31 lines). Hunk #8 succeeded at 1972 (offset 31 lines). Hunk #9 succeeded at 1985 (offset 31 lines). Hunk #10 FAILED at 2088. Hunk #11 FAILED at 2167. Hunk #12 succeeded at 2329 (offset -26 lines). Hunk #13 FAILED at 2422. Hunk #14 succeeded at 2431 with fuzz 1 (offset -31 lines). Hunk #15 succeeded at 2552 with fuzz 1 (offset -36 lines). Hunk #16 FAILED at 2574. 6 out of 16 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c.rej I tried patching manually, but it was beyond me. For example chunk 3 refers to static LIST_HEAD(smi_infos); which is not present in my 2.6.16.33 ipmi_si_intf.c How can I tell which 2.6.16.X branch these patches are meant for? Perhaps they apply on an earlier or later 2.6.16.x series kernel. Can I just copy the whole drivers/char/ipmi/ dir from a 2.6.17 kernel, and put it in my 2.6.16.33 ? Thanks, Paul --
