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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:33:24 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre9-mjc2
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Hi!

> > > computer" messages vanished about the time of the IBM/AT. You instructed
> > > it to erase critical internal data, so it did.
> > 
> > I asked it to read temperature sensors *then* it commited suicide.
> 
> No. You load lm_sensors, it does a bus scan and that trashes your eeprom.
> Its an lm_sensors problem (but rather hard to avoid when poking around
> randomly inside a laptop without a clue what its doing)

Okay, so what about adding dmi _white_list to lm_sensors? That should
address your concerns... [It would also be possible to autosetup
temperature offsets/divisors etc.]
									Pavel
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