On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:25:15AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > The following patch removes limits initialization in the via686a driver. > It was decided some times ago that this belongs to user-space, not > kernel. See the thread here: > http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg06134.html > > It also prevents the sensor chip from being savagely reset at load time. > This too follows a decision taken long ago that drivers should do as > little as possible in their init procedure. See the thread here: > http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg04593.html > > This should make the driver smaller, safer and faster to load. The same > was done to our 2.4/CVS version of the driver 5 months ago and it seems > to work just fine. > > This should apply cleanly on top of the previous patches (more > importantly, it should be applied after the recent error path fix patch, > although both patches shouldn't collide). Applied, thanks. greg k-h
