Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752150AbYHIRDz (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:03:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750763AbYHIRDr (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:03:47 -0400 Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:18641 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbYHIRDr (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:03:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 19:03:36 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: "Fabio Comolli" Cc: "Bjorn Helgaas" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Rene Herman" , "Andrew Morton" , "Thomas Renninger" Subject: Re: New conflict message in latest GIT Message-ID: <20080809190336.05e84068@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: References: <200807231256.42743.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20080809181358.5c9da790@hyperion.delvare> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 23 On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:32:31 +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: > Anyway, as usual linux is not supported at all on this laptop, it came > with XP. One thing that puzzles me is why bothering adding a > monitoring chip for which drivers do not exist for any OS? If you refer to the PC87591: that's a Super-I/O chip, including many different functions. Hardware monitoring is only one of these functions. Manufacturers might be interested in some of the other features and chose this chip because of them. Windows doesn't support hardware monitoring at all without 3rd party tools anyway, so that's hardly a decision factor for vendors. Additionally, on laptops, thermal management is most often done by ACPI rather than native OS drivers. Maybe the ACPI implementation in your laptop actually gets the temperature from the PC87591. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/