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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 11:09 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:02:55 +0100, Christian Krafft wrote:
> > I will try to test your patch today, but only have a little time for this.
> > If I'm not getting it today, I'll continue next monday.
> 
> Note that I managed to test the SVN version of sensors-detect myself
> (on ppc64) so I am confident that it works well now.
> 
> > I'm not very convinced, that this is the right solution, but as a
> > circumvention, it will take the pressure away.
> 
> What do you think would be the right solution? I agree that
> making /dev/port access safer at the kernel level is still needed. Do
> you have anything else in mind?

"safer" how so ?

How can the kernel differenciate between valid and non valid uses of
it ?

Ben.