Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 22:33:50 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors |
| |
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 03:07:57AM +0100, Alan Cox escreveu: > > On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 15:06, Albert Cranford wrote: > > > Hello Linus, > > > The i2c & lm_sensors group would like to submit these 9 > > > patches from our stable 2.6.3 package. > > > > Does this stuff still destroy thinkpads so badly they have to go back to > > ibm for a non warranty repair ? Nobody seems willing to provide straight > > answers, and I think they must be addressed before we merge such code > > Is there any other machine that is known to get fubar when using this code? > Perhaps a THINKPAD_SUPPORT in "Processor Types and Features", like there is > already for Toshiba and Dell laptops, that would disable the lm_sensors code, > and besides I think that this code should be marked EXPERIMENTAL, so that > users would be warned about these problems.
Anything short of "Destroy my precious Thinkpad? [y/N]" probably is insufficient. Frankly, I don't think even that's enough. Once this is mainlined, someone will want to build a kitchen sink distro kernel with sensor support and if the code itself isn't autodetecting whether it's on a problematic platform, it won't be long before someone boots their Thinkpad off a friend's CDR and toasts it.
-- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |