From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:49:18 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] sensors-detect: Skip "random" I/O port Message-Id: <1203634158.10422.198.camel@pasglop> List-Id: References: <20080218223317.2142dc16@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20080218223317.2142dc16@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org 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. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors