On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:20:24 -0700, Mark E. Hansen wrote: > On 10/31/07 11:47, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Depends on what kernel version you're using. I added support for the > > IT8716F in 2.6.19. For 2.6.17 and 2.6.18, there are kernel patches. > > Oh, this may be a problem. I'm running CentOS 4.5, which uses kernel 2.6.9. > I would imagine that it would take more than just building a new kernel to > get my machine up to that level (I'm assuming there would be a lot of > dependent packages that would need to be upgraded first, etc.). Indeed, upgrading the kernel only, without touching the supporting user-space packages, would certainly fail. > Is there any way to apply this patch to a 2.6.9 kernel? (probably not...) This would require a complete, expensive backport. > I guess I'll start looking into upgrading my machine to CentOS 5.0 (which > uses kernel 2.6.18, if I understand the site correctly). If you care about hardware monitoring, that's definitely the most reasonable solution, yes. -- Jean Delvare
