Re: [lm-sensors] ipmisensors module ported to 2.6.29

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:22:39 +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > For IPMI, I don't know if "ipmitool sensor" can be run as non-root,
> > this needs to be confirmed. I presume it depends on the permissions of
> > the /dev/impi* nodes.
> 
> Yes, the user needs rw permission on the device node.
> 
> >> If you are willing to spend effort on this, I would be happy to help were I
> >> can!
> >
> > The bottom line is that anyone who pushes IPMI sensors support forward
> > has my blessing. Honestly, I don't care that much whether it is in the
> > kernel or in libsensors, as long as it finally happens. It has been
> > pending for sooooo long :(
> 
> +1 ;-)
> I have the hardware (a few Dell servers) so at least I can do testing
> (and hopefully some coding).

Would you be willing to work together with Paul to put ipmisensors code
into shape to be finally merged into the kernel? After it is confirmed
that ipmisensors won't cause trouble to ipmisensors, of course.

Then we can discuss whether a libsensors-based implementation would
make sense, but if you need rw access to /dev/ipmi0 then I guess a
user-space implementation becomes unrealistic.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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