Even better is a patch that adds exactly what was added in kernel 2.5.34; that is, it puts all the detection logic in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c and simply exports is_unsafe_smbus. Jean Delvare wrote: >>>What would an acceptable name be? The bugzilla reporter suggested >>>prepending "i2c-" to the two files. >> >>Sounds good to me. > > > Blah. I should have read the rest of the thread before replying. Mark's > approch sounds much better (I really should have thought of it too, > shame on me). > > So, we have to make some changes to mkpatch so that it: > 1* Doesn't include our dmi_scan. > 2* Patches the kernel one. > > 1 is trivial, and 2 should not be too hard. >