Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

Stefan Richter
2007-08-12T10:44:10Z

I wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
>> One remaining mystery is why you did not observe the problem with the
>> older kernel. Maybe the ACPI thermal driver was not loaded (or not
>> working) back then?
>
> I found two differences: Gentoo's udev init script autoloads thermal on
> boot under 2.6.23-rc2 but it doesn't under 2.6.22(-rc5), for a reason
> unknown to me. If I manually load thermal under 2.6.22(-rc5),
[...]

The reason are obviously some post 2.6.22/ pre 2.6.23-rc1 commits which
add module aliases to ACPI drivers.
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Stefan Richter
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