Re: [PATCH] Don't point the user to the ipmisensors driver

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Yes Phil, bmcsensors was the Linux 2.4 driver, impisensors is the same
driver ported to Linux 2.6. Except that the port never got
completed :( And I don't have the hardware so I can't help.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:27:04 -0700, Phil Pokorny wrote:
> Is that the same driver as bmcsensors?
> 
> --
> Philip Pokorny, RHCE
> Chief Hardware Architect
> PENGUIN COMPUTING, Inc
> www.penguincomputing.com
> 
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:18:43AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>
> > Makes sense to me. Too bad this driver is not supported, though - I
> > would need it ;).
> >
> > Guenter

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