Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:35:24 +0100 | From | Gabriel C <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc6 |
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Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:34:04 +0100, Gabriel C wrote: >> Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> Zhang, Rui (2): >>> thermal: fix generic thermal I/F for hwmon >> That commit broke lmsensros here ( found by bisect ). >> ... >> >> Can't access procfs/sysfs file >> Kernel interface access error >> For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and libsensors >> was compiled with sysfs support! >> >> ... >> >> Of course proc and sysfs is mounted and the lib has that support :) > > This has been reported as: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10259 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437637 > > The generic thermal zone device does something which is not > fundamentally incorrect but that libsensors doesn't expect, and > unfortunately libsensors was not made robust enough and dies instead of > just ignoring the new unexpected device. libsensors 2.10.x is already > fixed in lm-sensors' SVN [1] and a tentative patch is available for > libsensors 3.0.x [2], however I am worried that kernel 2.6.25 will be > released before any new version of lm-sensors so pretty much every user > of lm-sensors will hit the problem if they upgrade to the new kernel. > For this reason, I think we really should let the new generic thermal > zone driver build as a module, and make it's hwmon support optional and > disabled by default for 2.6.25 [3]. This will help mitigate the risk of > massive breakage and complaints. > > [1] http://www.lm-sensors.org/changeset/5147 > [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=298270 > [3] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-March/022724.html >
Hmm , ok but then the situation is even worse.
Why something *known* to break _all_ existing lmsensors setups out there is being pushed that late in game ?
IMO that should be just reverted from 2.6.25 and pushed again in the next merge window.
Best Regards,
Gabriel
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