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

From: Julien BLACHE
Date: Sat Dec 18 2010 - 06:39:33 EST


"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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