On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:09 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:02:55 +0100, Christian Krafft wrote: > > 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. > > Note that I managed to test the SVN version of sensors-detect myself > (on ppc64) so I am confident that it works well now. > > > I'm not very convinced, that this is the right solution, but as a > > circumvention, it will take the pressure away. > > What do you think would be the right solution? I agree that > making /dev/port access safer at the kernel level is still needed. Do > you have anything else in mind? "safer" how so ? How can the kernel differenciate between valid and non valid uses of it ? Ben.
