> 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
>
