Subject: Re: Congrats Marcelo,
To: davej@suse.de (Dave Jones)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:51:51 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        marcelo@conectiva.com.br (Marcelo Tosatti),
        jdennis@snapserver.com (Dennis Jim),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org')
In-Reply-To: <20020301020328.A7662@suse.de> from "Dave Jones" at Mar 01, 2002 02:03:28 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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>  > 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.

The ones I looked at seemed credible - but yes it is an issue 8)
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