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

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806251845160.3279@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
Cc:	"Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@...htlink.com>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@....nl>,
	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

> Len suggested the default be hwmon support enabled

I think you were right and I was wrong on that part,
lets default =n.

What is new here is thermal I/F to hwmon.
Distros what want it will know they need libsensors 2.10.7
or libsensors 3.x before they turn it on.

libsensors <= 2.10.6 users who upgrade their kernel to 2.6.26
without distro support will get no bad surprises.

The down-side is simply that we are being less aggressive about
exposing these temperature readings via hwmon.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over that.

-Len

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