[PATCH 2.6.26-rc] ACPI Thermal Zone driver breaks lm-sensors 2 userspace

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:12:12PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

> libsensors <= 2.10.6 users who upgrade their kernel to 2.6.26
> without distro support will get no bad surprises.
> 
> The down-side is simply that we are being less aggressive about
> exposing these temperature readings via hwmon.
> I'm not going to lose any sleep over that.

I'd agree. I don't think this is strictly necessary, but it makes life 
easier for users rolling their own kernel. Exposing these values via 
hwmon is nice, but not vital. They're not going to be able to make use 
of it without the new code.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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