From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Dennis Jim <jdennis@snapserver.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo,
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:03:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020301020328.A7662@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203010137090.8089-100000@Appserv.suse.de> <E16gbbh-0001tN-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16gbbh-0001tN-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:13:09AM +0000
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:13:09AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> DMI can help in a much more productive way. DMI tells you the type of
> sensor in the machine. Once you are using ACPI though you talk to ACPI
> and it talks to the smbus etc and knows whats in the box
Given the fears of what happens when you look at i2c/smbus etc
the wrong way, is this something we can rely on DMI tables
to get right ? When they can't get cachesize info right, I begin
to question their ability to describe a temperature sensor.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-01 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 20:38 Congrats Marcelo, Dennis, Jim
2002-02-26 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-26 21:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-26 21:15 ` crypto (was Re: Congrats Marcelo,) Jeff Garzik
2002-02-26 21:35 ` Robert Love
2002-02-26 21:40 ` arjan
2002-02-26 21:47 ` Robert Love
2002-02-24 23:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-28 22:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-01 9:50 ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-27 9:41 ` Francois Romieu
2002-02-26 22:33 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-27 21:15 ` Michael H. Warfield
2002-02-27 21:57 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-27 22:29 ` Michael H. Warfield
2002-02-27 23:06 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-26 21:56 ` Congrats Marcelo, Steve Lord
2002-02-24 23:39 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:07 ` Steve Lord
2002-02-25 0:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:23 ` Rainer Ellinger
2002-02-25 0:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27 0:47 ` Rainer Ellinger
2002-02-27 1:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-27 1:08 ` Matthew D. Pitts
2002-02-26 22:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-26 22:59 ` Steve Lord
2002-02-25 0:28 ` Whither XFS? (was: Congrats Marcelo) Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:39 ` Steve Lord
2002-02-25 8:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-26 23:00 ` Congrats Marcelo, J.A. Magallon
2002-02-28 21:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-03-01 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01 0:37 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-01 1:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01 1:03 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-01 1:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-01 1:28 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-01 1:53 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-02 22:35 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2002-03-02 3:43 ` Stephen Degler
2002-02-28 22:41 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-01 9:30 Andries.Brouwer
2002-03-01 18:33 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-02 4:13 Dennis, Jim
2002-03-02 18:24 ` David Ford
2002-03-03 22:58 ` Florian Weimer
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