Changeset 5404

Timestamp:

11/23/08 16:16:45 (5 years ago)

Author:

khali

Message:

Fix device->driver lookup name. What we are really interested in is the
name of the kernel module, not the name of the driver. This went unnoticed
so far because almost all hwmon drivers have a driver name equal to the
module name.

Files:

• lm-sensors/branches/lm-sensors-3.0.0/prog/detect/sensors-detect (modified) (2 diffs)

lm-sensors/branches/lm-sensors-3.0.0/prog/detect/sensors-detect

@@ -2400 +2400 @@
 #################
 
-# From a sysfs device path, return the driver name, or undef
+# From a sysfs device path, return the driver (module) name, or undef
 sub sysfs_device_driver($)
 {
   my $device = shift;
 
-  my $link = readlink("$device/driver");
+  my $link = readlink("$device/driver/module");
   return unless defined $link;
   return basename($link);
@@ -3075 +3075 @@
     if (!i2c_set_slave_addr(\*FILE, $addr)) {
       # If the address is busy, we can normally find out which driver
-      # is using it, and we assume it is the right one.
+      # requested it (if the kernel is recent enough, at least 2.6.16
+      # and later are known to work), and we assume it is the right one.
       my ($device, $driver);