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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:24:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Steven Timm <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: lm_sensors >=2.9 on SL4 (fwd)

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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Steven C. Timm, Ph.D  (630) 840-8525  [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/
Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section
Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group
Lead of Computing Farms Team