Comparing apples to bananas doesn't seem right. Consistently use the chips enum for chip type comparisons, to avoid such bugs in the future. The bug has been there since support for the IT8718F was added, so VID never worked for this chip nor for the similar IT8720F. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Stable team, this fix applies to 2.6.27 and 2.6.31, and everything in between if they are going to see one more stable release (I guess not.) drivers/hwmon/it87.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.32-rc5.orig/drivers/hwmon/it87.c 2009-10-21 16:06:43.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.32-rc5/drivers/hwmon/it87.c 2009-10-21 16:44:16.000000000 +0200 @@ -1028,12 +1028,11 @@ static int __init it87_find(unsigned sho chip_type, *address, sio_data->revision); /* Read GPIO config and VID value from LDN 7 (GPIO) */ - if (chip_type != IT8705F_DEVID) { + if (sio_data->type != it87) { int reg; superio_select(GPIO); - if ((chip_type == it8718) || - (chip_type == it8720)) + if (sio_data->type == it8718 || sio_data->type == it8720) sio_data->vid_value = superio_inb(IT87_SIO_VID_REG); reg = superio_inb(IT87_SIO_PINX2_REG); -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors