Re: Will there ever be EMC6w201 support?

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On Sun, 08 May 2011 06:19:11 -0500, Jeff Rickman wrote:
> On 5/8/2011 1:27 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Did you try loading this original i8k driver? Did it work? What are the
> > contents of /proc/i8k then?
> 
> [testing with original "i8k" module]
> (1) Removed new "i8k" module from /lib/modules tree
> (2) Checked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
> (3) Copied original "i8k" module back to it's location in:
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/char
> (4) Ran "depmod -a"
> (5) Rebooted PC to obtain known stable state
> 
> After reboot...
> (6) Checked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
> (7) Checked "lsmod". "i8k" is not loaded
> (8) Attempted to load original "i8k" but it crashed.
>      Crash output is attached.
> (9) Rechecked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
> (10) Rebooted PC to return to known stable state

This means that my changes aren't responsible for the crash, nor is the
fact of building the driver standalone. So I will leave it to the
Fedora kernel maintainers to resolve, if you care and if they are
interested.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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