The development of the ipmisensors driver stalled 5 years ago, the driver isn't usable, so stop pointing the users to it, it only confuses them. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558756 for example. --- I have this patch in openSUSE for 1.5 year, any objection to me getting it upstream for everyone's benefit? prog/detect/sensors-detect | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- lm-sensors.orig/prog/detect/sensors-detect 2011-06-08 14:59:16.000000000 +0200 +++ lm-sensors/prog/detect/sensors-detect 2011-06-08 15:12:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -1356,12 +1356,12 @@ use vars qw(@i2c_adapter_names); @ipmi_ifs = ( { name => "IPMI BMC KCS", - driver => "ipmisensors", + driver => "to-be-written", # ipmisensors isa_addrs => [0x0ca0], isa_detect => sub { ipmi_detect(@_); }, }, { name => "IPMI BMC SMIC", - driver => "ipmisensors", + driver => "to-be-written", # ipmisensors isa_addrs => [0x0ca8], isa_detect => sub { ipmi_detect(@_); }, } @@ -6039,6 +6039,7 @@ sub w83781d_isa_detect sub ipmi_from_smbios { my ($version, $if, @ipmi_if); + my $ipmi_driver = "to-be-written"; # ipmisensors return 0 unless check_dmidecode_version(); @@ -6074,13 +6075,13 @@ sub ipmi_from_smbios $if->{type})); } print "Success!\n". - " (confidence 8, driver `ipmisensors')\n"; + " (confidence 8, driver `$ipmi_driver')\n"; my $new_hash = { conf => 8, isa_addr => $if->{addr} || 0, chipname => $if->{type}, }; - add_isa_to_chips_detected("ipmisensors", $new_hash); + add_isa_to_chips_detected($ipmi_driver, $new_hash); } return scalar @ipmi_if; -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
