[lm-sensors] [PATCH] sensors-detect: Skip "random" I/O port probing on PPC

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Wed Feb 20 20:07:42 CET 2008


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.

-- 
Jean Delvare



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