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authorfrodo <frodo@7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0>2001-02-04 11:43:09 +0000
committerfrodo <frodo@7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0>2001-02-04 11:43:09 +0000
commitce4b31b4c5341d03cc133ad74ca2553a547dc1c7 (patch)
tree604fe0796509ba15ac358c8ad2a520264bd90854 /INSTALL
parentd39b9a9d4f450991bf53bffc4ba55988fa67cc9c (diff)
downloadlm-sensors-ce4b31b4c5341d03cc133ad74ca2553a547dc1c7.tar.gz
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
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@@ -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 **