Hi Soeren,
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:43:05 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> this commit makes coretemp fail on my macbook pro.
>
> 1) rmmod oopses (see below)
> 2) it breaks s2ram
>
> Soeren
>
> commit 67f363b1f6a31cf5027a97372f64bcced4f05ba6
> Author: Rudolf Marek <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun May 27 22:17:43 2007 +0200
>
> hwmon/coretemp: Add more safety checks
>
> Add detection of AE18 Errata of Core processor and warns
> users that the absolute readings might be wrong for Core2 processor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <[email protected]>Subject: hwmon/coretemp: Fix a broken error path
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Thanks for reporting. Indeed this patch is broken, sorry for
overlooking it. I tested it but my hardware is such that the faulty
error path was never taken. Please test the following patch (on top of
git-current) and confirm it fixes your problem:
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <[email protected]>
---
drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4.orig/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c 2007-06-05 10:25:54.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c 2007-06-16 23:14:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static int __devinit coretemp_probe(stru
/* check for microcode update */
rdmsr_on_cpu(data->id, MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, &eax, &edx);
if (edx < 0x39) {
+ err = -ENODEV;
dev_err(&pdev->dev,
"Errata AE18 not fixed, update BIOS or "
"microcode of the CPU!\n");
Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare
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