Messages in this thread | | | From | Kelledin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:08:54 -0500 |
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> 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.
I agree, the lm_sensors driver should maintain a blacklist for ThinkPads, and make it possible to disable the blacklist only by going in and hacking the kernel source manually. Whenever the lm_sensors drivers detect a blacklisted ThinkPad, they should vehemently refuse to function.
-- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
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