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    SubjectRe: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?
    On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:31:58 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
    > > My point (which you didn't quote) was that there is no correlation
    > > between the SMBus being hidden and ACPI accessing the hardware
    > > monitoring chip, contrary to what Pavel was suggesting.
    >
    > It may not be correlated with ACPI, but BIOS authors clearly want to
    > keep you away from their SMBus controllers....

    drivers/pci/quirks.c is full of things we do against the BIOS authors
    intent. You don't plan to remove them all, do you?

    (And as a side note, this is really the board's owner SMBus controller.
    The hardware doesn't belong to the BIOS author.)

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    Jean Delvare
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