Patch needed for lm_sensors-2.10.1 on FC3/amd64 2.6.16.20

[ticket]

To work on FC3/AMD64 with kernel 2.6.16.20 you need to change sensors-detect this way.

The problem is that the return put into $funcs can be bigger than what perl allocates for . For a related discussion see:  http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-perl-devel-list@redhat.com/msg00591.html

This is probably a 64 bit problem only and/or might only happen with that old perl. Still, you probably want to do what I do below.

Also, FC3 on a mainboard Intel d975xbx (socket 775) will panic a 2.6.16.20 smp kernel when probing i2c_i801 some time after "Client found at address 0x4c" [varying number of "Probing for"] Skipping this client makes things work flawlessly, though. Excellent work overall :-)

[khali]

The core of the problem seems to be that we aren't properly passing the size (nor direction) in the ioctl function number. OTOH it looks like the kernel code is broken in this respect, so I suspect things would break if we were passing the size and/or direction.

Preallocating the memory space should work as a workaround, however allocating 8 kB for an unsigned int is a bit overkill ;) I'd rather allocate exactly the amount we need, see the attached patch.

As for your other problem, you didn't provide enough details for us to help you, sorry. Please open a separate bug report with all the details if you care.

[khali]

Preallocate memory space for funcs ioctl

[khali]

Second patch applied to SVN.