Re: [PATCH] More i2c driver changes for 2.5.70

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 09:22:07 EST


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:18:51PM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> The lm85, adm1021 patches also apply cleanly to 2.5.72 :-)

Yes, I have them in a bk tree and will be sending them to Linus later
today :)

> Question to Greg, Philip :
> Is there really a race conditon with the update function ?

Where do you think the race is?

> If so, all sensors are incorrect (also in CVS lmsensors).
> Comments ?
>
> Is any thought being given to merging ACPI and sensors ?

The way we report the sensor values to userspace, yes, I have talked
with the acpi people about this in the past. But it looks like a 2.7
thing at the earliest.

thanks,

greg k-h
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