From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Auto load of coretemp and pkgtemp Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:54:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4D3DBCC9.7000804@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]:42480 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753529Ab1AXRyG (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:54:06 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([10.127.143.51]) by cdptpa-qmta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20110124175405555.QKAM27091@cdptpa-qmta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:54:05 +0000 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org I recently built a new sandybridge system and was surprised to find that I had to manually load the coretemp and pkgtemp modules to monitor the cpu temperature. My last few systems have been AMD where the k8temp module is automatically loaded. It seems k8temp has a modalias that gets it loaded on the correct hardware, but coretemp and pkgtemp have no alias. Why is this, and how can I construct a proper alias to get the intel modules to auto load?