[lm-sensors] user question about how to load xeontemp

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 02:04:21PM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
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> > 
> > I don't know the status of ipmi integration and ipmi module names. There
> > is the OpenIPMI project, and they have lots of patches to improve ipmi
> > support. Jean may know better than me if/when/how those patches will be
> > integrated into the mainline kernel.
> 
> The impisensor driver is abandoned for years. I won't look into it as I
> have many other drivers to work on and I don't have supported hardware.
> 
> In the meantime, my recommendation is to use ipmitool. It is _not_
> integrated with libsensors, but other than that, it should report the
> sensor values properly.
> 
How about OpenIPMI ? Any plans to integrate that code into the mainline, 
or is that pretty much a parallel effort ?

Just trying to get an idea where IPMI kernel support is going. Looks like IPMI
is going to be used in a project here, so we may have to support it.

Thanks,
Guenter