Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:13:43 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors |
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Em Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:33:50PM -0500, Oliver Xymoron escreveu: > 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.
Oh, but that is more or less like the IDE options, if I don't read what is there I can lose my data, specially with this dual p100 neptune I have here with a buggy CMD640 IDE controler, running 2.5.latest-bk, rock solid! ;) And IIRC some distros _already_ ship with lm_sensors, for the ones that don't the current .config in the kernel srpm don't have the lm_sensors stuff selected.
But anyway, the lm_sensors team has to come with answers, if this is not the case anymore, if some workaround was found, whatever.
People that compile the kernel should better know what he/she ask for...
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