Sorry, forgot the link

http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-October/018052.html

Troy
Troy Dawson wrote:
> Steve,
> Here is a posting to the CentOS mailling list detailling how one of 
> their users did it.  This is for lm-sensors 2.10.1, so it is fairly 
> recent.  They even have a spec file at the end.
> 
> If that works for you, let us know and we'll put it into the contrib area.
> 
> Troy
> 
> Steven Timm wrote:
>> It appears that the analogous kernel modules for SL4
>> never got made in the ATRPMS repository.
>> Does any scientific-linux based site out there actually
>> have lm_sensors 2.9.x or 2.10.x working in combination
>> with an SL4-based Enterprise kernel as distributed by our dear 
>> Upstream Vendor? If so, how? lm_sensors list is saying it can't be done.
>>
>> Steve Timm
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Maarten Ballintijn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> I am using :
>>>
>>> i2c-kmdl-2.4.21-37.ELsmp-2.9.2-3.el3.at.x86_64
>>> lm_sensors-2.9.2-42.el3.at.x86_64
>>> lm_sensors-kmdl-2.4.21-37.ELsmp-2.9.2-42.el3.at.x86_64
>>>
>>> from the ATrpms repository on our Opterons.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Maarten.
>>>
>>> Steven Timm wrote:
>>>> The 2.6.9 series of kernels, as distributed by our dear
>>>> Upstream Vendor and recompiled by us, are distributed with
>>>> lm_sensors 2.8.7, which is a deprecated version.  It works OK
>>>> for older hardware but for the newer hardware, any of the
>>>> new 64-bit boards, it doesn't have the chip modules needed
>>>> to support them, nor the underlying newer i2c routines
>>>> on which those chip modules depend.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone found an easy workaround for this?  It is a lot
>>>> different now that the i2c is integrated into the main
>>>> kernel source.  In 2.4 kernels you could just compile all
>>>> the modules fresh and tack them on.  Now you have to
>>>> patch out some stuff and put in other stuff.  If anyone
>>>> has already done this it could save us here at Fermilab a
>>>> lot of work.  (P.S. I already put out this query
>>>> to the lm_sensors mailing list and got nothing).
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
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