Hi, On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 11:41:41AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Marcelo, hi all, > > We have been having reports that recent changes in the ACPI subsystem of > the Linux 2.4 kernel are breaking lm_sensors on a fairly large number of > systems. In particular, 2.4.28 is affected. > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1761 > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1819 > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1820 > > I did not report earlier because I thought the problem would be fixed by > the ACPI folks before 2.4.28 would be released. Unfortunately it wasn't. Ouch :( > The problem is already known, was reported for 2.6 kernels 4 months ago > and fixed there by David Shaohua. See this kernel bug report for the > detail of symptoms and the solution: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3049 > > Applying the proposed patch to a 2.4.28 kernel make lm_sensors work > again on affected systems, while not causing trouble to unaffected ones > as far as I can tell. > > Len, David, any reason not to apply the same fix to the 2.4 tree? It looks like this should come through the acpi BK tree. Len, David?
