From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:24:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2.6] No reset not limit init in via686a Message-Id: <20040412232359.GG26817@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040412112515.4f6904ba.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20040412112515.4f6904ba.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:25:15AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > The following patch removes limits initialization in the via686a driver. > It was decided some times ago that this belongs to user-space, not > kernel. See the thread here: > http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg06134.html > > It also prevents the sensor chip from being savagely reset at load time. > This too follows a decision taken long ago that drivers should do as > little as possible in their init procedure. See the thread here: > http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg04593.html > > This should make the driver smaller, safer and faster to load. The same > was done to our 2.4/CVS version of the driver 5 months ago and it seems > to work just fine. > > This should apply cleanly on top of the previous patches (more > importantly, it should be applied after the recent error path fix patch, > although both patches shouldn't collide). Applied, thanks. greg k-h