Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933862AbZLOWq0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:46:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755006AbZLOWqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:46:24 -0500 Received: from smtp12.ono.com ([62.42.230.20]:22487 "EHLO resmaa12.ono.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932735AbZLOWqW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:46:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:46:19 +0100 From: "J.A. =?UTF-8?B?TWFnYWxsw7Nu?=" To: LKML Subject: Re: Useless thermal acpi driver ? Message-ID: <20091215234619.62d0ebc1@werewolf.home> In-Reply-To: References: <20091209232608.25aed4ca@werewolf.home> <4B20483C.6090309@gmail.com> <20091211094515.4b4872ef@werewolf.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3cvs35 (GTK+ 2.19.1; x86_64-unknown-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: 1504 Lines: 44 On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:00:25 -0500 (EST), Len Brown wrote: > this DSDT returns a constant temperature, always: > > Method (_TMP, 0, NotSerialized) > { > Return (0x0BB8) > } > > > so in this case, Linux is just reporting the (lack of) news:-) > So, lets see...: - Someone decided ACPI is the only-real-good-way - Only a few devices are ported to ACPI - The old way is unusable - We can not return to the old way So, any solution ? Thermal ACPI info in this boards (and I suspect in many others) is useless. We can not disable that part of ACPI, we can not enable sensors. So no thermal monitoring. Nice. Ayways, as in this case the ACPI part does not any real work, is still present the problem of two drivers poking the same hardware or could I use that 'lax' trick ? And second, can the traditional sensor drivers be ported to offer an ACPI device replacing the default one, or is that a stupid question ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2010.0 (Cooker) for x86_64 Linux 2.6.29.3-desktop-1mnb (gcc 4.3.2 (GCC) #1 Wed May -- 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/