On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:22:39 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > For IPMI, I don't know if "ipmitool sensor" can be run as non-root, >> > this needs to be confirmed. I presume it depends on the permissions of >> > the /dev/impi* nodes. >> >> Yes, the user needs rw permission on the device node. >> >> >> If you are willing to spend effort on this, I would be happy to help were I >> >> can! >> > >> > The bottom line is that anyone who pushes IPMI sensors support forward >> > has my blessing. Honestly, I don't care that much whether it is in the >> > kernel or in libsensors, as long as it finally happens. It has been >> > pending for sooooo long :( >> >> +1 ;-) >> I have the hardware (a few Dell servers) so at least I can do testing >> (and hopefully some coding). > > Would you be willing to work together with Paul to put ipmisensors code > into shape to be finally merged into the kernel? After it is confirmed > that ipmisensors won't cause trouble to ipmisensors, of course. I _might_ be able to hijack a development machine during the weekend, otherwise for testing I'd have to backport to 2.6.26 (Debian) since I really can't do a lot of reboots to test a kernel module. > Then we can discuss whether a libsensors-based implementation would > make sense, but if you need rw access to /dev/ipmi0 then I guess a > user-space implementation becomes unrealistic. But easier to test for me :P BTW, I did a quick recompile of ipmitool opening the device node ro: it still works (or at least it seems to). Luca _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
