5 How to Ask for Help
@@ -1758,6 +1759,26 @@ sensors driver for VIA bridges). This caused the second loaded driver to
silently fail working. So do not load both i2c-viapro and via686a together
unless you have a recent kernel.
+4.33.2 Where are my EEPROMs?
+
+The 2.6.14-rc1 kernel introduced the hwmon class, which groups all
+hardware monitoring drivers in a logical way. The goal was to help
+libsensors grab the relevant sensors information in /sys. In particular:
+
+- libsensors will no more need to know about the underlying bus types
+(I2C/SMBus, ISA or other);
+
- libsensors will no more list non-hardware monitoring chips.
+
+ This explains why EEPROMs are no more displayed by sensors:
+they are no hardware monitoring chips. The medium term plan is to drop
+eeprom support for all Linux 2.6 kernels, as it didn't fit well in
+the library code in the first place.
+
+ Note that you can still obtain information about your EEPROMs by using
+the dedicated perl scripts in prog/eeprom: ddcmon,
+decode-dimms.pl, decode-edid.pl and
+decode-vaio.pl.
+
Next:
Contribute,
@@ -2222,6 +2243,7 @@ Up:
Top
Appendix A Revision History of This Document
+- Rev 2.16 (JD) Added 4.33.2, 2005-09-06
- Rev 2.15 (JD) Updates, including mailing-list change, 2005-05-21
- Rev 2.14 (MDS) Updated 4.12, 2004-11-26
- Rev 2.13 (JD) Added 4.6.1, updated 4.7, 2004-06-23
diff --git a/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.texi b/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.texi
index 948eb2a1..d6da35c7 100644
--- a/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.texi
+++ b/doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.texi
@@ -1258,8 +1258,8 @@ For IBM systems, see @file{README.thinkpad}.
@section Problems on 2.6 kernels
Not all drivers have been ported to 2.6. If your favorite driver is not
-in 2.6, the reason is that nobody has ported it.
-Please don't bother asking us why it is not in 2.6.
+in 2.6, the reason is that nobody has ported it, or the ported code did
+not get a proper review yet.
If you would like to port the driver, see the file
Documentation/i2c/porting-clients in the 2.6 kernel tree for help,
then send us the ported driver when you are done.
@@ -1271,6 +1271,25 @@ sensors driver for VIA bridges). This caused the second loaded driver to
silently fail working. So do not load both i2c-viapro and via686a together
unless you have a recent kernel.
+@subsection Where are my EEPROMs?
+The 2.6.14-rc1 kernel introduced the hwmon class, which groups all
+hardware monitoring drivers in a logical way. The goal was to help
+libsensors grab the relevant sensors information in /sys. In particular:
+@itemize
+@item libsensors will no more need to know about the underlying bus types
+(I2C/SMBus, ISA or other);
+@item libsensors will no more list non-hardware monitoring chips.
+@end itemize
+This explains why EEPROMs are no more displayed by @command{sensors}:
+they are no hardware monitoring chips. The medium term plan is to drop
+eeprom support for all Linux 2.6 kernels, as it didn't fit well in
+the library code in the first place.
+
+Note that you can still obtain information about your EEPROMs by using
+the dedicated perl scripts in @file{prog/eeprom}: @command{ddcmon},
+@command{decode-dimms.pl}, @command{decode-edid.pl} and
+@command{decode-vaio.pl}.
+
@node Help, Contribute, Problems, Top
@chapter How to Ask for Help
@@ -1591,6 +1610,7 @@ can not be sure.
@appendix Revision History of This Document
@itemize
+@item Rev 2.16 (JD) Added 4.33.2, 2005-09-06
@item Rev 2.15 (JD) Updates, including mailing-list change, 2005-05-21
@item Rev 2.14 (MDS) Updated 4.12, 2004-11-26
@item Rev 2.13 (JD) Added 4.6.1, updated 4.7, 2004-06-23
diff --git a/doc/version.texi b/doc/version.texi
index 69e8799f..e3719ac5 100644
--- a/doc/version.texi
+++ b/doc/version.texi
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-@set UPDATED 21 May 2004
-@set VERSION 2.15
+@set UPDATED 6 September 2004
+@set VERSION 2.16