From: Matthew Garrett Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:53:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Don't load if Message-Id: <20100330215305.GA2220@srcf.ucam.org> List-Id: References: <20100309135636.373a40a9@hyperion.delvare> <20100330120319.627e8f9a@hyperion.delvare> <20100330132132.GA16657@srcf.ucam.org> <20100330214732.42f488ba@hyperion.delvare> <20100330194835.GA32322@srcf.ucam.org> <20100330223251.76c6b000@hyperion.delvare> <20100330211049.GA1524@srcf.ucam.org> <68676e01003301445v1b3ee070nfc0f0b53716c4740@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <68676e01003301445v1b3ee070nfc0f0b53716c4740@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Luca Tettamanti Cc: Jean Delvare , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , LM Sensors On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:45:46PM +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Because the situation with the asus driver loaded isn't obviously any > > worse than not having it loaded. The user is telling us that they're > > happy with racy access to their hwmon hardware. > > "lax" option is typically used when the user wants to load the native > driver; in this case we know that it's not safe to load asus driver. It's not safe to load the native driver, full stop. Not loading the asus driver doesn't alter that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors