Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:14:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:10:45 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:58120 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:07:24 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:03:28 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Alan Cox Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Dennis Jim , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo, Message-ID: <20020301020328.A7662@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Dennis Jim , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:13:09AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:13:09AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 Given the fears of what happens when you look at i2c/smbus etc the wrong way, is this something we can rely on DMI tables to get right ? When they can't get cachesize info right, I begin to question their ability to describe a temperature sensor. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/