Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:50:19 -0500
From: Mike Houston <mikeserv@bmts.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
       Mike Houston <mikeserv@bmts.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Elvis Pranskevichus <el@prans.net>, mhoffman@lightlink.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
       Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
       Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, lenb@kernel.org,
       linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:00:30 -0700
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:

> What do you think of something like the following patch?  If we do
> this, I don't think we'd need to force pnpacpi=off or change the
> way PNP reserves resources.
> 
> I'll be on vacation until about January 2, so I won't be able to
> do much with this until then.
> 
> 
> 
> [patch] it87: request only Environment Controller ports

I'm not qualified to give an opinion on what's proper for the
kernel, so all I can say is that I've applied it (to fresh 2.6.24-rc6
source without Shaohua's pnpacpi patch) and it works nicely for me.

>From /proc/ioports:

0290-029f : pnp 00:01
  0290-0294 : pnp 00:01
  0295-0296 : it87
    0295-0296 : it87

>From dmesg:

system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
...
system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x294 has been reserved

My sensors work.

Thanks for this patch,

Mike Houston
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