#597815 lm-sensors: Should detect whether the kernel supports the detected chip

Package:
lm-sensors
Source:
lm-sensors
Description:
utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors
Submitter:
Mike Hommey
Date:
2010-09-23 09:57:08 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#597815#5
Date:
2010-09-23 09:55:12 UTC
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I installed lm-sensors on a fresh squeeze install, with a 2.6.32 kernel.
sensors-detect tells me the following:
  Driver `f71882fg':
    * ISA bus, address 0xa00
      Chip `Fintek F71889FG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

  To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
  #----cut here----
  # Chip drivers
  f71882fg
  #----cut here----

Unfortunately, loading the given driver fails:
[    6.699840] f71882fg: Unsupported Fintek device

Looking at the linux kernel source, it appears the device support was
added to the kernel between 2.6.32 and 2.6.33, and thus is not
supported by the debian stock kernel.

It would be useful if sensors-detect would try to load the module
already and issue a message when it doesn't work.

Mike