lm_sensors & kernel

lm_sensors & kernel

[Jean Delvare]

> Any news on whether 2.4.23 will have the sufficient code to keep from 
> having to patch for i2c in order to get lm_sensors to correctly
> implement?

It probably won't, since it's a bit late to have such a big patch into
Linux 2.4.23 (so I was told). I should have been faster, my fault. I
expect only a few simple fixes to be accepted into 2.4.23, the rest of
the changes be left for 2.4.24. So I'll have to make a patch available
once more.

> Also, any news on the status of lm_sensors in 2.6 kernel?
> I didn't notice it in test9.

It is there! Take a look in drivers/i2c, you'll see almost all bus
drivers, plus several chip drivers. The main problem is that user-space
tools don't support Linux 2.6 yet (although I think someone is working
on it) so you'll have to read the raw values in /sysfs. Admittedly not
very comfortable.

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/

lm_sensors & kernel

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:25:11PM -0600, Troy Henderson wrote:
> > It is there! Take a look in drivers/i2c, you'll see almost all bus
> > drivers, plus several chip drivers. The main problem is that user-space
> > tools don't support Linux 2.6 yet (although I think someone is working
> > on it) so you'll have to read the raw values in /sysfs. Admittedly not
> > very comfortable.
> 
> I was able to do that, but I was looking for a way to make GKRellm show 
> the sensor data.

The latest versions of gkrellm should work just fine with a 2.6 kernel
to see the sensor values.  It uses sysfs.

Good luck,

greg k-h

lm_sensors & kernel

[Troy Henderson]

> It probably won't, since it's a bit late to have such a big patch into
> Linux 2.4.23 (so I was told). I should have been faster, my fault. I
> expect only a few simple fixes to be accepted into 2.4.23, the rest of
> the changes be left for 2.4.24. So I'll have to make a patch available
> once more.

Oh well!

> It is there! Take a look in drivers/i2c, you'll see almost all bus
> drivers, plus several chip drivers. The main problem is that user-space
> tools don't support Linux 2.6 yet (although I think someone is working
> on it) so you'll have to read the raw values in /sysfs. Admittedly not
> very comfortable.

I was able to do that, but I was looking for a way to make GKRellm show 
the sensor data.

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