[lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather than hardcoding resources and devices

[Jean Delvare]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:44:34 +0800, Mikael Ström wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know nothing about the background to the mail below, but if it's of
> any help, macfanctld uses the following hardwired paths,
> 
> reading:
> 
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/temp<n>_input
> 
> and writing:
> 
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_min
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_min
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan2_manual
> 
> If any of those are to be broken, please advice in advance so i can
> update the source before you break it, avoiding that the users fry their
> MacBooks.

I would expect the kernel driver to behave sanely in the absence of a
user-space application. Isn't it the case? If not, I consider it a
serious bug in the driver, which should be addressed ASAP.

-- 
Jean Delvare