I understand and fully appreciate your comments. I'm sure that this is not resolved in our current 2.6.3 version that I'm currently integrating into linux-2.5.26. Today we released i2c&lm_sensors 2.6.4 with new IBM drivers but this is for PPC and considered Beta testing at the moment. I will make a change in the Config.in to warn 600x laptop users to stay away. Thanks alot, Albert Jerry Cooperstein wrote: > > Hi: > > Having fried one motherboard on my 600x Thinkpad by use of > sensor-detect (I'm not blaming anyone but myself for reading > documentation a little too late--and I got it replaced on > warranty) I'm kind of nervous about whether the lm_sensors > patches going into the kernel are sensitive to the Thinkpad > issue, either by resolving it, or sensing it is a Thinkpad > and staying away from it. > > I haven't been able to find any recent documentation on this, > so I'd appreciate it if you could bring me up to date. Besides > my own fears, I have nightmares about distributions using > such kernels and frying up laptops on unsuspecting users. I > know from checking things out in the past the blame belonged > to IBM and/or Intel, not Linux, but I'm not sure everyone > would see it that way :< > > Thanks, > > coop > > ====================================================================== > Jerry Cooperstein, PhD <coop at axian.com> > Senior Consultant > ____ _ > Axian, Inc. <info at axian.com> // |_ __(_) ___ _ __ > 4800 SW Griffith Dr., Ste. 202 //| |\\/ /| |/ _ \| '_ \ > Beaverton, OR 97005 USA _____//_| | / / | | |_| | | | | > Voice: (541)758-8020 (( // |_|/_/\\|_|\_/|_|_| |_| > ``-'' ``-'' > http://www.axian.com/ Software Consulting and Training > ====================================================================== -- Albert Cranford Deerfield Beach FL USA ac9410 at bellsouth.net
