Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors

[Kelledin]

> Anything short of "Destroy my precious Thinkpad? [y/N]"
> probably is insufficient. Frankly, I don't think even that's
> enough. Once this is mainlined, someone will want to build a
> kitchen sink distro kernel with sensor support and if the code
> itself isn't autodetecting whether it's on a problematic
> platform, it won't be long before someone boots their Thinkpad
> off a friend's CDR and toasts it.

I agree, the lm_sensors driver should maintain a blacklist for 
ThinkPads, and make it possible to disable the blacklist only by 
going in and hacking the kernel source manually.  Whenever the 
lm_sensors drivers detect a blacklisted ThinkPad, they should 
vehemently refuse to function.

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"