On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Great, note that it is far easier to try this outside of an kernel tree. If > you have a pre build distro kernel + headers, then just drop asc7621.c (which > should be generated successfully by the patch) and the attached makefile in a > dir. > > Then in that dir type "make" followed by "insmod asc7621.ko" > Many thanks, I'll do that. I don't use a pre build distro kernel, I always install vanilla kernels from kernel.org and compile them for my machine. So building an additional driver should not be a problem; you are right, it is better to do this outside the kernel tree and ignore the problem with the patch. > > If you use lm_sensors-3.0.x it will automatically work with any new drivers, > per chip userspace support luckily is a thing of the past. > That is fine. I have still lm_sensors-2.10 from the Slackware distribution I'm using; I'll immediately download the latest 3.0.x version. Regards Wolfgang
