From 9d24d79ca501b52b869ce1635b84aef384f8f83e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frodo Looijaard Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 11:43:09 +0000 Subject: Better notes about mkpatch not working on 2.3 kernels git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@1012 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- INSTALL | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f707a219..d8c4492b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ options 2 and 3). Especially if you have in the past placed the header files in /usr/local/include, this will probably go wrong. See below on how to fix this. +NOTE: option 3 only works with 2.2 and 2.4 (2.4.0 and later) kernels; + option 1 and 2 also work with 2.3 kernels. + Mixing old and new, and using beta drivers (compilation option 1) ================================================================= @@ -239,12 +242,13 @@ Patching the kernel (compilation option 2) ========================================== There is a special script which should be able to generate diffs against -any 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. Note that 2.3 kernels are no longer supported for -this compilation option (choose option 1 instead). Please report any -problems to our mailinglist. Note that it may fail, and probably silently, -if you have 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. +any 2.2 or 2.4 kernel (2.4.0 or later). Note that 2.3 kernels are no +longer supported for this compilation option (choose option 1 instead). +Please report any problems to our mailinglist. Note that it may fail, +and probably silently, if you have 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 ** -- cgit v1.2.1