From: Phil Perry <phil@elrepo.org>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Cannot compile w83627ehf standalone driver
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:32:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522A3BD5.1000501@elrepo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4gtj299ua16tgbppavpscp3ljolbrs8o8r@4ax.com>
On 06/09/13 21:22, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:37:43 -0700, singumal wrote:
>> I have an ASRock IMB-170 Mini-ITX board; 3.3.4's sensors-detect shows:
>>
>> Found `Winbond W83627UHG/NCT6627UD Super IO Sensors' Success!
>> (address 0x290, driver `w83627ehf')
>>
>> I'm on an older kernel, and I can't seem to compile the driver
>> from:
>>
>> http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/lm-sensors/drivers/w83627ehf/
>>
>>
>> [root@plain1 driver]# uname -a
>> Linux plain1 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [root@plain1 driver]# make
>> CC [M] /root/driver/w83627ehf.o
>> /root/driver/w83627ehf.c: In function `in_from_reg':
>> /root/driver/w83627ehf.c:416: error: implicit declaration of function `DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST'
>> ... [many more errors and warnings]
>
> This driver was never tested for kernels older than 2.6.32. More
> compatibility work would be needed to get it to build and work on
> kernel 2.6.18.
>
> I'm wondering if maybe Redhat can provide a backported version as a
> separate package? You're probably not the only one asking for this, as
> this is a popular driver.
>
I've already done a backport of the w83627ehf for RHEL5 and RHEL6, and
it is packaged as a kABI-tracking kmod RPM package (kmod-w83627ehf) in
the elrepo repository.
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-w83627ehf
This driver is backported from the longterm kernel-3.2.50.
Once you have set up the elrepo repository:
yum install kmod-w83627ehf
will pull in the updated driver.
Further, because it's a kABI-tracking package the driver will seamlessly
work with new kernels so you will not need to recompile the driver
against each new kernel update (an advantage of Red Hat's stable kernel
ABI).
Regards,
Phil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 15:37 [lm-sensors] Cannot compile w83627ehf standalone driver singumal
2013-09-06 20:22 ` Jean Delvare
2013-09-06 20:32 ` Phil Perry [this message]
2013-09-11 5:44 ` singumal
2013-09-11 14:23 ` Phil Perry
2013-09-11 15:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-11 15:38 ` Phil Perry
2013-09-12 8:56 ` singumal
2013-09-12 9:05 ` Jean Delvare
2013-09-13 10:34 ` singumal
2013-09-13 13:37 ` Phil Perry
2013-09-14 1:41 ` singumal
2013-09-14 12:08 ` Phil Perry
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