Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:42:36 +0100
From: Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no>
To: sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com
Subject: lm_sensors 2.8.2 / DESTDIR / root
The reason for this email is that I always try to avoid running
Makefiles as root, even during 'make install'. Therefore, I
always use the DESTDIR feature, when it's available. Until today,
I always built i2c and lm_sensors by doing
$ make
$ make -i install DESTDIR=/foo
$ cd /foo && su root && fix permissions/ownership && install
The -i flag to make install is a kludge to avoid having to be root
while installing to the DESTDIR, and it's only required because
the files are installed with "-o root -g root". Using the -i
flag is of course not a good idea, since more fatal errors can
easily fly by undetected.
Today, I upgraded to Linux 2.6.0, and tried a similar install
procedure for lm_sensors, except that the make target is now "user"
and the install target is "user_install". I now noticed that the
DESTDIR variable is not used everywhere in "user_install", so I
couldn't use the -i kludge anymore. Instead, I wrote a patch that
removes the "-o root -g root" arguments to install everywhere, and
I also tried to add DESTDIR to all files/directories installed.
(The patch only applies to lm_sensors, not i2c, since only
lm_sensors is required in Linux 2.6.0.)
There's really no reason to say -o root -g root anyway, since if you
do install directly with make install, you have to be logged in as
root, and then the files will get the right ownership by default.
Much of the point of installing to a temporary DESTDIR is that you
don't have to be root, and that you can prepare the installation
by hand. Fixing the ownership is trivial:
chown -R root.root $DESTDIR
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@2189 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Implemented/fixed PEC and process calls, and block reads/writes in
the driver. ARP now works with smbus-arp.c.
Removed attempt at 2.2 support. Module doesn't work w/ 2.2 kernels.
Added check in Module.mk so it won't compile unless CONFIG_X86_64.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1656 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Alpha architecture. I've made compilation contingent on
the machine being an Alpha because the driver needs kernel
include files that are in <asm-alpha>, not <asm>, unless
you are set up as an Alpha.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1109 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
at Scali. Untested, but compiles cleanly. Seems to be very closely based
on the Intel PIIX4 SMBus driver.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@946 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
commit, the module can detect and read the registers from compatible
Keywest buss(es). (Note: there may be more than one bus, as I seem to have.)
Probing is done via Apple's 'New World' Open-Firmware rather than PCI. In
this way, this driver should work with any I2C bus (when it is completed)
which is Keywest 'compatible'. The down side is that this module won't
work on anything but a newer Apple PPC.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@811 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
The i801 driver is for the standard I2C bus on an i810 board.
This driver adds the support for the DDC and TV-out busses.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@729 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Set DESTDIR if you want to install at some other place then where you
will run everything from.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@675 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
sensors-detect detection is now complete; I think nothing else needs
to be done in the tree?!? (except documentation of course)
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@643 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
The Makefile now examine $(LINUX)/.config to see what modules need to be
compiled. It compiles only those modules which were either not configured
in at all, or were built as modules (ie. drivers which are built-in in the
kernel are not built, as they can not be overruled).
The above is still potentially dangerous, if we break the interface of
our modules. Still, it is much better than it was.
C
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@575 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
* Fixed adapter drivers to compile with the new i2c structs.
They might, or they might not work..
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@497 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
It tries to delete bit-via.o, bit-mb.o, isa.o and piix4.o in the module
install directory.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@194 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Mark D. Studebaker