linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc] ACPI Thermal Zone driver breaks lm-sensors 2 userspace

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:06:57 -0400
From:	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@....nl>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc] ACPI Thermal Zone driver breaks lm-sensors 2 userspace

Linus, Rene, et al:

* Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl> [2008-06-23 17:06:14 +0200]:
> drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> index 6098787..c21e03c 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c
> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
> 
> 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hwmon->tz_list);
> 	strlcpy(hwmon->type, tz->type, THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH);
> -	hwmon->device = hwmon_device_register(NULL);
> +	hwmon->device = hwmon_device_register(&tz->device);
> 	if (IS_ERR(hwmon->device)) {
> 		result = PTR_ERR(hwmon->device);
> 		goto free_mem;

NACK.

1) The bug is in libsensors (2.10), not the kernel.

- but more importantly -

2) This patch is broken.

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@...htlink.com

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