Hi Tilman ,

Thanks for your reply.
It seems to me that the problem is not that "inocent".
dmesg shows:

i2c /dev entries driver
hwmon: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
hwmon_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
lm85: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.

Meaning that lm85 simply does not work.
lm_sensors stopped working.
I can not even run /usr/sbin/sensors-detect because it can not find any
sensor on the PC!

Is there a way to make hwmon accept tainted modules?

Best regards,
Pedro



> On 26.09.2006 23:56, pedrocsort-e@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I just updated OpenSuSE 10.1 and I had sensors running before this update.
> > sudently it seems that after then kerbnel up-date
> > from the original 2.6.16.13 to 2.6.16.21
> > there is a kernel message that says (dmesg):
> >
> > hwmon_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> > lm85: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> >
> > This was working before,
>
> And it probably does still work.
>
> > moreover: it is installed in the kernel source
> > tree of the lattest kernel.
>
> But not in 2.6.16.21, so there.
>
> > How can I "untaint" this module
>
> You can't, and moreover, you don't need to. It wouldn't change
> anything for you. Just ignore that silly message. It's just Novell
> abusing the Linux kernel taint mechanism for telling you: "Don't
> come to us if you have any problems with this."
>
> HTH
> Tilman
>
> PS: <personalgripe>
> Had no end of trouble with this myself as co-maintainer of an
> open source driver which SuSE all of a sudden decided to denounce
> as "tainting their kernel" even though it is under GPL and all.
> Nowadays my driver's README file has an additional paragraph just
> for telling the users: "If you run SuSE/Novell please ignore their
> silly taint message." But of course the complaints along the lines
> of: "Your driver is tainting my kernel, why isn't it open source
> licensed?" still keep coming.
>
> Thank you, SuSE. NOT.
> </personalgripe>
>
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> Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
> Bonn, Germany
> - In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is.