From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:45:14 +0000
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On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:20:21 Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I suspect the manufacturers would say "Oh, the sensors?  The BIOS
> isn't broken, you're just supposed to use WMI or some (undocumented)
> ACPI device to get at those."

It's quite possible - can we have DSDTs for the boards in question so we can 
quickly check if this is a possibility? (Basically, to see if they have 
PNP0C14 devices - if they don't, then I'm afraid it's nothing to do with 
WMI).

-Carlos
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