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| author | Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> | 2000-10-12 02:16:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> | 2000-10-12 02:16:19 +0000 |
| commit | 8251d7cbd3cc1874d5cd62cfe932f33e70e3424d (patch) | |
| tree | 910417ef0fb469e547a1a9ae901f41ec81620f69 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 51a520ee32f33847b468ee3274d08c02539047c6 (diff) | |
| download | lm-sensors-git-8251d7cbd3cc1874d5cd62cfe932f33e70e3424d.tar.gz | |
(mds) Emphasize that mkpatch only patches in a subset of the package.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@900 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -2,15 +2,20 @@ These are the installation instruction for the lm_sensors package. There are two ways in which you can compile and install this package. Each has its own strong points. They are: + 1. Complete separate from kernel compilation This will generate a set of modules which can be inserted and removed as needed; nothing will be written into the kernel tree; + 2. Patching of the kernel This will patch your kernel source tree. You must recompile your kernel to take advantage of this. But it makes it possible to compile drivers into the kernel itself, instead of having to add them as modules. - AFTER YOU COMPILED AND INSTALLED YOUR KERNEL, YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO - COMPILE THIS PACKAGE TO GET THE USERLAND UTILITIES! + ** AFTER YOU COMPILED AND INSTALLED YOUR KERNEL, YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO + ** COMPILE THIS PACKAGE TO GET THE USERLAND UTILITIES! + ** NOT ALL MODULES ARE PATCHED INTO THE KERNEL. SEE BELOW. + + Each of these ways will be described below in detail. @@ -238,6 +243,12 @@ applied other patches to your kernel tree, or for very new kernels. It *is* safe to run it if your kernel already has the lm_sensors drivers. It will only work if you applied the i2c patches first. +** Only a subset of the modules in lm_sensors are patched into the ** +** kernel by the script. See the file mkpatch/FILES to see if the ** +** modules you need are included. If a module you need is NOT listed ** +** in mkpatch/FILES, it will not be patched, and you MUST use option 1. ** +** If you are not sure what modules you need, run `sensors-detect' first. ** + The kernel diffs are generated by the program `mkpatch.pl' in the mkpatch subdirectory. It needs two arguments: the first one is the root of the i2c package, the second one is the root of the kernel tree against |