linux-kernel - Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather than hardcoding resources and devices

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Message-ID: <878vzngvyn.fsf@sonic.technologeek.org>
Date:	Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:29:52 +0100
From:	Julien BLACHE <jb@...ache.org>
To:	"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>,
	"lm-sensors\@lm-sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather than hardcoding resources and devices

"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@...omail.se> wrote:

Hi,

>> Which applications? libsensors-based applications definitely don't
>> hard-wire anything.
>
> The ones I am thinking of are pommed and macfanctld, there are
> probably others. The sysfs nodes have been around a while, so it is
> not really surprising. If there is a policy saying it is ok to break
> userspace in this case, that's fine.

I've just changed pommed to probe for applesmc through /sys/class/hwmon,
so you can go ahead and break it as far as I'm concerned :)

JB.

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