Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:33:44 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] lm90 driver no longer working on PCs in 3.13 |
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On 01/27/2014 03:58 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:41:35PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> I'll test Mark's two patches on my system and let you know the results. >> After looking some more into it, those _may_ actually fix the problem at least >> for systems supporting ACPI. No promise, though, and I am not sure if that >> would be sufficient (it may still not work on non-ACPI PCs). But then who > > They should fix ACPI systems, if they don't we need to fix them further > - that case should just work, it was an oversight not to have a patch > like the ACPI one in already. I'm not sure how many non-ACPI PCs still > exist, we're definitely talking about things over 10 years old (even > before PCs became ACPI only they started to have ACPI present which > should be sufficient). > > Jean, I'm doing a writeup but it's probably not going to be done today. >
I confirmed that your two patches ("regulator: core: Correct default return value for full constraints" and "ACPI: Flag use of ACPI and ACPI idioms for power supplies to regulator API") together fix the problem with the lm90 driver, at least for ACPI based systems.
Thanks, Guenter
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