[lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if ACPI resources aren't enforced

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Wed Mar 31 15:25:00 CEST 2010


On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:51:23 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:30:04AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > It definitely does. At least on some of the affected boards, no access
> > to the I/O area in question is done at all as long as the asus_atk0110
> > driver is not loaded.
> 
> You've audited the system management code?

No, I did not. But you did not review the system management code of all
computers out there either, and you are still writing kernel code that
could be broken by it. So what's the point?

-- 
Jean Delvare



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