Re: [lm-sensors] Will there ever be EMC6w201 support?

[Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us>]

On 5/8/2011 7:29 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2011 06:19:11 -0500, Jeff Rickman wrote:
>> On 5/8/2011 1:27 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> Did you try loading this original i8k driver? Did it work? What are the
>>> contents of /proc/i8k then?
>>
>> [testing with original "i8k" module]
>> (1) Removed new "i8k" module from /lib/modules tree
>> (2) Checked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
>> (3) Copied original "i8k" module back to it's location in:
>> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/char
>> (4) Ran "depmod -a"
>> (5) Rebooted PC to obtain known stable state
>>
>> After reboot...
>> (6) Checked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
>> (7) Checked "lsmod". "i8k" is not loaded
>> (8) Attempted to load original "i8k" but it crashed.
>>       Crash output is attached.
>> (9) Rechecked "/proc/i8k". No such file or directory
>> (10) Rebooted PC to return to known stable state
>
> This means that my changes aren't responsible for the crash, nor is the
> fact of building the driver standalone. So I will leave it to the
> Fedora kernel maintainers to resolve, if you care and if they are
> interested.
>

I agree with your comments.

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