[ATrpms-users] lm_sensors 3.0.0

[Florin Andrei]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:23:05AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
>> Anybody working on a spec file for this new version?
> 
> I will be doing that, but I would love if someone else (you perhaps?
> :) :) :) would want to take over and be guided to maintain it in
> ATrpms. :)
> (probably best discussed on atrpms-devel)

I'll see what I can do. I can't promise anything, I'm very busy these days.

>> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-September/021277.html
>>
>> The nifty part is that it doesn't depend on kernel drivers, so
>> conceivably you can get updated support for new devices just by
>> updating lm_sensors, no kernel update required - as long as you're
>> using 2.6.5 or later.
> 
> Are you sure this is implied? I think it looks more like a statement
> that 2.4 has been dropped. For 2.6.x there were never kernel modules
> in the tarball. Until now if a 2.6 kernel was too old to support a
> chipset it just wasn't supported, the userland portion alone would not
> be able to resurrect it.

Well, in any case it sounded like more hardware is supported now, and 
it's less dependent on old kernel modules. Which might be good news for 
me, given that the current lm_sensors doesn't work very well with RHEL4 
on Tyan Transport GT24

If I somehow manage to spare some time, I'll give it a try and see if it 
really enables me to monitor the sensors on that combination of OS and 
hardware mentioned above. That would be a strong incentive to package it.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/