Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc] ACPI Thermal Zone driver breaks lm-sensors 2
 userspace
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> Len suggested the default be hwmon support enabled

I think you were right and I was wrong on that part,
lets default =n.

What is new here is thermal I/F to hwmon.
Distros what want it will know they need libsensors 2.10.7
or libsensors 3.x before they turn it on.

libsensors <= 2.10.6 users who upgrade their kernel to 2.6.26
without distro support will get no bad surprises.

The down-side is simply that we are being less aggressive about
exposing these temperature readings via hwmon.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over that.

-Len


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