From 44ac4fa958a84625626c3e10b709be12013d0ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mark D. Studebaker" Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:54:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add advice for 2.6 kernels, from Rudolf's mail git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@2973 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- prog/hotplug/README | 8 ++++++++ prog/hotplug/README.p4b | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/prog/hotplug/README b/prog/hotplug/README index dea9689d..ace11541 100644 --- a/prog/hotplug/README +++ b/prog/hotplug/README @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ M7101 - SMBus Support for ALi M15x3 based motherboards. For Asus P4B motherboards, use the p4b_smbus module; see the file README.p4b. +NOTE: +This module is for 2.4 kernels only. For 2.6 kernels, +activation is handled by the code in drivers/pci/quirks.c +in the kernel source. If you have the latest 2.6 kernel and +the quirks code does not activate your SMBus, try adding support +in quirks.c, recompile and test your new kernel, and then +submit a patch to us. Contact us if you need assistance. + -------------------------------------------------------- Quick Start (2.4 kernels only): diff --git a/prog/hotplug/README.p4b b/prog/hotplug/README.p4b index 7e854291..154db209 100644 --- a/prog/hotplug/README.p4b +++ b/prog/hotplug/README.p4b @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ What is it? ----------- +NOTE: +This module is for 2.4 kernels only. For 2.6 kernels, +activation is handled by the code in drivers/pci/quirks.c +in the kernel source. If you have the latest 2.6 kernel and +the quirks code does not activate your SMBus, try adding support +in quirks.c, recompile and test your new kernel, and then +submit a patch to us. Contact us if you need assistance. + This is just a quick and dirty hack to get the hardware monitoring working on the ASUS P4B board under Linux. It works by turning on the SMBus PCI device.