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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:48:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BDDA59.5070302@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BDD8B3.8070708@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

> Jean Delvare wrote:
>> So my theory is that something else (BIOS, ACPI?)

(ksensors?)

>> is changing the bank,
>> probably to read temperature values which are in banks 1 and 2, causing
>> the w83627ehf to get a wrong value for the VBAT register. If I am
>> right, then the attached patch should help. Please give it a try and
>> report.

This patch fixes the issue.  (I didn't reboot, only reloaded the drivers
after patching.)

Thanks for your help and advice.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== =--- -=-==
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-11 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 11:20 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed Stefan Richter
2007-08-05 11:28 ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-05 13:55 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-08-05 14:51   ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-05 15:17     ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-08-05 16:21 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-08-05 17:13   ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-10 21:08     ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-10 22:29       ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-10 22:39         ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-11  2:30           ` [lm-sensors] " David Hubbard
2007-08-11 11:57         ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-11 15:41           ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-11 15:48             ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-08-12  9:21               ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-12  9:17             ` Jean Delvare
2007-08-12 10:34               ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-12 10:43                 ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-12 17:49           ` Mark M. Hoffman
2007-08-12 16:06   ` Jean Delvare

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