Re: 2.6.5 Sensors & USB problems

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

> > > 2.6.5-rc1 -> sensors broke (ERROR: Can't get <sensor> data!)
> > 
> > Your sensors problem will be resolved as soon as you switch to the
> > just released lm_sensors 2.8.6.
> 
> I use the same w83781d and i2c_i801 drivers on my Asus P4PE box, and
> they too went belly up with 2.6.5. However, I HAVE tried lm_sensors
> 2.8.6 and that made no difference. They're just user-space tools that
> don't touch the kernel any more in 2.6.x (right?).
> 
> The problem I am seeing now in 2.6.5 is that after loading the w83781d
> module, nothing shows up in /sys or /proc, as though the module had
> not loaded but lsmod says it is loaded.
> 
> In 2.6.4, my sensors showed up hare:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/i2c-0/0-002d/* (w83781d)
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/i2c-1/1-0050/* (eeprom)
> 
> Now in 2.6.5, with both eeprom and w83781d modules loaded, I only get
> the eeprom, and the w83781d is nowhere to be found:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/i2c-1/1-0050/* (eeprom)

This is a different problem, and I agree that upgrading user-space tools
couldn't help in you case. Ben had his chip correctly detected but the
interface exported by the kernel was not known to the (not up-to-date)
user-space tools. In you case this is the kernel driver not supporting
your hardware anymore, that's different.

See my answer to your second post for details about your case.

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