On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Sven Anders wrote: > > Hmm?! > Does nobody know or is nobody willing to answer? > > I'm thinking of updating the patch for newer kernel, but > as my time is limited, I would only do this, if it's the > right way and it has a chance to be integrated in the > kernel. As I recall, the driver needs to be ported to 2.6.28-rc. Both it and ibmpex try to call hwmon_device_register on the bmc device, which causes problems if someone tries to load both. I think there was a general unease with putting it in without some more code review. The author doesn't seem to be pushing for its inclusion. If nothing else, I did a quick port to 2.6.28-rc5 and it miscategorizes a power meter as a current sensor and the fan RPM sensors totally don't work. I might be able to clean it up a bit and then maybe we can push it into the scary-upcoming-drivers tree? Not to mention the usual "just use ipmitool" argument. :) --D
