Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] sensors-detect: Skip "random" I/O port

[Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>]

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Hi Jean,

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.

I'm not very convinced, that this is the right solution, but as a
circumvention, it will take the pressure away.

Cheers,
Christian

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:07:42 +0100
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:33:17 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > As a follow-up of this discussion on LKML:
> >   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/390
> > I would like to propose the following patch to sensors-detect:
> > (...)
> > The idea is to skip "random" I/O port probing on PPC, as it won't find
> > anything anyway and can cause the kernel to oops.
> > 
> > Christian, can you please test this patch and confirm that it solves
> > your problem?
> 
> My patch wasn't correct, I forgot to chomp the trailing new line
> returned by uname -m. I've just committed a working fix to SVN, please
> try this instead.
> 


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Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
kind regards,

Christian Krafft
IBM Systems & Technology Group,
Linux Kernel Development
IT Specialist


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