[lm-sensors] [Patch] lm-sensors crash on non x86 hardware

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

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Hi,

Please consider this tiny patch for inclusion.
It provides the user with more precise info.

Index: lm_sensors-2.10.0/prog/detect/sensors-detect
===================================================================
--- lm_sensors-2.10.0.orig/prog/detect/sensors-detect
+++ lm_sensors-2.10.0/prog/detect/sensors-detect
@@ -5153,7 +5153,7 @@ sub main
 
   print "\nSome chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are\n".
         "typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do\n".
-        "this. This is usually safe though.\n\n";
+        "this. This is usually safe on x86 acrhitecture.\n\n";
   if ($> != 0) {
     print "As you are not root, we shall skip this step.\n";
   } else {
@@ -5167,7 +5167,7 @@ sub main
 
   print "\nSome Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. Super I/O probes are\n".
         "typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do\n".
-        "this. This is usually safe though.\n\n";
+        "this. This is usually safe on x86 acrhitecture.\n\n";
   if ($> != 0) {
     print "As you are not root, we shall skip this step.\n";
   } else {


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Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
kind regards,

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


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