Re: Cannot compile w83627ehf standalone driver

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On 06/09/13 21:22, Jean Delvare wrote:
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:37:43 -0700, singumal wrote:
I have an ASRock IMB-170 Mini-ITX board; 3.3.4's sensors-detect shows:

   Found `Winbond W83627UHG/NCT6627UD Super IO Sensors'        Success!
       (address 0x290, driver `w83627ehf')

I'm on an older kernel, and I can't seem to compile the driver
from:

    http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/lm-sensors/drivers/w83627ehf/


[root@plain1 driver]# uname -a
Linux plain1 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@plain1 driver]# make
   CC [M]  /root/driver/w83627ehf.o
/root/driver/w83627ehf.c: In function `in_from_reg':
/root/driver/w83627ehf.c:416: error: implicit declaration of function `DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST'
... [many more errors and warnings]

This driver was never tested for kernels older than 2.6.32. More
compatibility work would be needed to get it to build and work on
kernel 2.6.18.

I'm wondering if maybe Redhat can provide a backported version as a
separate package? You're probably not the only one asking for this, as
this is a popular driver.


I've already done a backport of the w83627ehf for RHEL5 and RHEL6, and it is packaged as a kABI-tracking kmod RPM package (kmod-w83627ehf) in the elrepo repository.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-w83627ehf

This driver is backported from the longterm kernel-3.2.50.

Once you have set up the elrepo repository:

yum install kmod-w83627ehf

will pull in the updated driver.

Further, because it's a kABI-tracking package the driver will seamlessly work with new kernels so you will not need to recompile the driver against each new kernel update (an advantage of Red Hat's stable kernel ABI).

Regards,

Phil


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