Jean Delvare wrote: >> I have been trying to get sensors and grsecurity playing nicely >> however it seems that this is impossible if /dev/port restrictions are >> enabled. >> Unfortunately, these restrictions come along with the ones on /dev/kmem >> and /dev/mem, so I don't really want to disable them. >> >> If my W83697HF only detects on the ISA bus, is it going to be >> impossible to read data from it without access to /dev/port? > > The sensors-detect script uses /dev/port, but the driver itself > obviously doesn't (since it belongs to kernel space). Thus there should > be no issue (other than sensors-detect not working, but if you already > know which devices you have, you don't need it anyway. My apologies for the question, I realise in hindsight that it does not make sense! Of course the driver doesn't use /dev/port, it works fine with the restrictions enabled. Thanks again for your help, David
