linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

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Message-ID: <46BEE469.8080403@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:43:53 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
CC:	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: hwmon/w83627ehf: wrong fan speed

I wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
>> One remaining mystery is why you did not observe the problem with the
>> older kernel. Maybe the ACPI thermal driver was not loaded (or not
>> working) back then?
> 
> I found two differences:  Gentoo's udev init script autoloads thermal on
> boot under 2.6.23-rc2 but it doesn't under 2.6.22(-rc5), for a reason
> unknown to me.  If I manually load thermal under 2.6.22(-rc5),
[...]

The reason are obviously some post 2.6.22/ pre 2.6.23-rc1 commits which
add module aliases to ACPI drivers.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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