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

From: Mark M. Hoffman
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 13:11:51 EST


Linus, Rene, et al:

* Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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