"sensors_init: Kernel interface error" if /s/c/h/hwmon0/device does'nt exist

[ticket]

If /s/c/h/hwmon0 doesn't have a 'device' entry sensors fails with the above error and does'nt check for further devices. In my case hwmon0 seems to come from ACPI, as hwmon0/name is "thermal_sys_class".

The device I really want to access is hwmon1 and is a (from dmesg):
it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 3

Kernel: 2.6.25-rc6
lm_sensors: 3.0.1 (Debian Lenny)

[khali]

Already discussed at:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437637
 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10259

Just upgrade to kernel 2.6.25-rc7, the thermal_sys_class device has been removed so the problem no longer happens.

The problem has already been fixed in branch 2.10.x of lm-sensors (r5147). For branch 3.0.x, no fix has been committed yet, although a proposal has been made:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=298270

[khali]

Now fixed in branch 3.0.x as well (r5176).