On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:56:32PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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? Blechk. Also crashes on rmmod, and it seems that the only thing that works are the voltage sensors. Lots of strange looking code to convert sensor readings too. --D
