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Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo,
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> The machines in question are all IBMs iirc ? Could we work around
> this with DMI strings for the suspect laptops ?

DMI can help in a much more productive way. DMI tells you the type of 
sensor in the machine. Once you are using ACPI though you talk to ACPI
and it talks to the smbus etc and knows whats in the box
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