Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre9-mjc2 | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:47:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > computer" messages vanished about the time of the IBM/AT. You instructed > > it to erase critical internal data, so it did. > > I asked it to read temperature sensors *then* it commited suicide.
No. You load lm_sensors, it does a bus scan and that trashes your eeprom. Its an lm_sensors problem (but rather hard to avoid when poking around randomly inside a laptop without a clue what its doing)
> In such case disk should either: > *) have "firmware flasher" part unwritable, > or > *) check signature on whatever it is flashing in, and if it does not > match, refuse to flash it.
Well they don't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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