[REGRESSION, ABI] Re: LMSENSORS: 2.6.26-rc, enabling ACPI Termal Zone support costs sensors

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On 23-06-08 22:07, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 23-06-08 19:54, Len Brown wrote:
> 
>> Rene,
>> Thank you for reporting this.
>>
>> I agree that this failure is an unwelcome surprise to those users
>> who upgrade to 2.6.26 but are still using libsensors <= 2.10.6.
>>
>> Jean, Mark, Hans,
>>
>> I'm actually fine with adding a temporary kernel config option
>> along the lines Rene suggested to ease the  migration
>> to linux-2.6.26 for those users.
>>
>> But the config option would need to be scheduled for removal
>> after a certain period (say 6 months) so we don't have to maintain
>> it forever.
>>
>> More importantly, I think it would also have to be disabled by default
>> so that it would not have a negative impact on what we think are the
>> majority of properly configured systems.  After all, we fixed this
>> bug in user-space about out 4 months ago and as you point out, the
>> distro upgrade path is actually quite well looked after.
>>
>> So I'm not sure how useful it would be to the target users.
>> After they run into the problem, they'd probably google it
>> and find that they can either tweak a kernel config option
>> or upgrade libsensors.  And we'd prefer that they do the
>> later rather than the former, yes?
>>
>> just let me know.
> 
> Thank you for the reason. Yes, people upgrading libsensors would be 
> preferred and this issue should show up in google now.
> 
> Frankly, if I had gone to the lm-sensors homepage and had seen a fixed 
> 2.x version available I'd no doubt have shrugged it off then and there 
> so I might as well do so now that Delvare announced that it's _going_ to 
> be there real soon. 2.10.7 should be painless enough as an upgrade, it's 
> needing lm-sensors 3.0(.2) and all its listed accompanying patches to 
> programs depending on libsensors which triggered this thread.
> 
> So, <shrug>. I know how to fix my own systems, others will be able to 
> find out and once lm-sensors 2.10.7 is available, it's not a big deal 
> anymore.
> 
> That said, here's the "make it optional" patch tweaked according to your 
> comments. Feel free to drop it on the floor...

Typo(s) in the feature-removal-schedule (only change).

Rene.
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