lm-sensors: to patch or not to patch

knittel · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 50

Hello,

I would like to install lm-sensors. However, having visited the homepage and read the READMEs I am not sure wether I need to patch the kernel or not. The documentation is quite contradictionary here.

For one (Webreadme) , it sais I need at least "i2c-2.7.0", whereas the latest downloadable version is 2.6.5.

The included README sais, kernels later as 2.4.13 do not require a patch., since they contain i2c-2.6.1, which may be sufficent, contrary to the web-readme, which requires a file not available.
What to believe ?
Talking about lm-sensors 2.6.5 here, which would imply the i2c-2.6.5 patch. Is latter one compatible also with 2.4.20 (and does by chance anyone know, wether this ic patch would interfere with the zoran video driver, which requires i2c, too) ?

Has anyone experience or knowledge about this ? Running Kernel 2.4.20 (not ext3 here).

pilla · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 10:13 pm Post subject:

If you are using a Thinkpad laptop, I would advise you not to use lm-sensors, as things could go horribly wrong. Make a google search for lm-sensos and thinkpad and you'll see why.

ronmon · Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 11:39 pm Post subject:

I've been using lm_sensors for quite some time now (like two years or more) and I always use the cvs version of both i2c and lm_sensors2. The instructions for grabbing them are on the download page. Once you have them (I keep mine in /usr/src) you can update them by cd'ing into each directory and running 'cvs update -d'.

Then I patch the kernel, i2c first and then lm_sensors2, using their handy patch script:

knittel · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 50

Thanks. So i2c does not seem to be to demanding and/or critical about kernels,
I'll try 2.6.5 first (simply more comvinient than cvs) and in case I encounter problems I will switch to cvs.

P.S.: Thanks for the hint, but it's no notebook.