SMBus hardware note recognized

[Jia-Shiun Li]

On 6/2/05, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/05, Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you sure you have ichsmb in kernel config and it successfully
> > compiles a working kernel?
> > ichsmb depends on smbus which you load as module, but ichsmb itself is
> > not, and currently cannot be compiled as, a module. You either did not
> > discover the failure of compiling kernel or just did not have ichsmb
> > in kernel config.
> Well, if this is what you are referring to:
> 
> 14    2 0xc075f000 3688     smbus.ko
>        Contains modules:
>                Id Name
>                55 viapropm/smbus
>                56 amdpm/smbus
>                57 ichsmb/smbus
>                58 alpm/smbus
>                59 intsmb/smbus
>                60 bktr/smbus
>                61 iicsmb/smbus

You are right, actually I did not know the module was packed this way. ;)

Then the problem would be that the module did not do its
initialization correctly at loading time. In my experiment compiling
it into kernel did work, but compiling it as a loadable kernel module
did not.

Jia-Shiun.