Re: [lm-sensors] lm90 driver no longer working on PCs in 3.13

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/27/2014 03:58 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:41:35PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > I'll test Mark's two patches on my system and let you know the results.
> > After looking some more into it, those _may_ actually fix the problem at least
> > for systems supporting ACPI. No promise, though, and I am not sure if that
> > would be sufficient (it may still not work on non-ACPI PCs). But then who
>
> They should fix ACPI systems, if they don't we need to fix them further
> - that case should just work, it was an oversight not to have a patch
> like the ACPI one in already.  I'm not sure how many non-ACPI PCs still
> exist, we're definitely talking about things over 10 years old (even
> before PCs became ACPI only they started to have ACPI present which
> should be sufficient).
>
> Jean, I'm doing a writeup but it's probably not going to be done today.

I confirmed that your two patches ("regulator: core: Correct default
return value for full constraints" and "ACPI: Flag use of ACPI and ACPI
idioms for power supplies to regulator API") together fix the problem
with the lm90 driver, at least for ACPI based systems.

Thanks,
Guenter

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/