On Oct 7, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/02/2013 10:24 AM, Henrik Rydberg wrote: > >>> From 4451da32414080bd0563ee9e061f19bf90463cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:15:03 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] applesmc remedy take 2 >> >> Conjectured problem: there are remnant bytes ready on the data line >> which corrupts the read after a failure. >> >> Remedy: assuming bit0 is the read valid line, try to flush it before >> starting a new command. >> >> Tests by Chris suggests reading the status is enough for the problem >> to go away, which is consistent with a change in the SMC interface, >> where the number of bytes to read is no longer specified, but found >> out by reading until end of data. >> >> Tested on a MacBookAir3,1, but the original problem has not been >> reproduced. > > So, what should we do with this patch ? Apply it ? So far I'm getting nothing on the original machine. As of today it's applied as the last patch on 3.12.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc20.x86_64. Unfortunately at the moment I'm a bit too dense to figure out how to get a new kernel applied to an existing live package so I can try this on a USB stick. While maybe unrelated, the oops was occurring at least 4x as often booted from USB stick media than HDD. Chris _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
