Hi Jean, I will try to test your patch today, but only have a little time for this. If I'm not getting it today, I'll continue next monday. I'm not very convinced, that this is the right solution, but as a circumvention, it will take the pressure away. Cheers, Christian On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:07:42 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:33:17 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As a follow-up of this discussion on LKML: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/390 > > I would like to propose the following patch to sensors-detect: > > (...) > > The idea is to skip "random" I/O port probing on PPC, as it won't find > > anything anyway and can cause the kernel to oops. > > > > Christian, can you please test this patch and confirm that it solves > > your problem? > > My patch wasn't correct, I forgot to chomp the trailing new line > returned by uname -m. I've just committed a working fix to SVN, please > try this instead. > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, kind regards, Christian Krafft IBM Systems & Technology Group, Linux Kernel Development IT Specialist Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschaeftsfuehrung: Herbert Kircher Sitz der Gesellschaft: Boeblingen Registriergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20080221/f979027b/attachment.bin