Phil Perry <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 11/09/13 16:22, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: >>> On 11/09/13 06:44, singumal wrote: >>>> Phil Perry <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you very much, Phil. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to quite like my system, >>>> >>>> The RPM installed fine, but "sensors" only shows coretemp, not the chip. >>>> Finally I checked the module - something isn't right: >>>> >>>> [root@tm3 etc]# modprobe w83627ehf >>>> FATAL: Error inserting w83627ehf (/lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/weak-updates/w83627ehf/w83627ehf.ko): No such device >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure what the problem is. One thing I note is that you are >>> running an older RHEL 5.7 kernel. Would it be possible to try >>> booting the latest/current RHEL kernel to at least eliminate that as >>> the possible cause (i.e, a RHEL 5.9 kernel; >>> kernel-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5 is the latest). >>> >> Maybe the chip in question is not supported by the backported version >> of the driver. >> >> Guenter >> > >Hi Guenter, > >It should be (unless maybe it's being mis-detected by sensors-detect?). >The backport is from kernel-3.2.48 LT branch which contains the patch to >add support for the W83627UHG chip, as reported by sensors-detect above. > >Phil Trying it under CentOS 5.9, it still doesn't work: [root@x59 ~]# cp /media/MULTIBOOT/Work/kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm . [root@x59 ~]# rpm -Uvh kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm warning: kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID baadae52 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kmod-w83627ehf ########################################### [100%] Working. This may take some time ... Done. [root@x59 ~]# modprobe w83627ehf FATAL: Error inserting w83627ehf (/lib/modules/2.6.18-348.el5/weak-updates/w83627ehf/w83627ehf.ko): No such device [root@x59 ~]# uname -a Linux x59 2.6.18-348.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 17:53:53 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
