http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6315
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-09 02:20 ------- > And another question I asked once before (#14): how come Windows _is_ able to > access and display sensor data without conflicts? It depends on what you call "Windows" here. Windows itself doesn't include any hardware monitoring tool as far as I know. It's frequent that the laptop or motherboard vendor includes a dedicated hardware monitoring program as part of the software bundle. They have a great advantage on us: they know all the hardware and BIOS details. So they know all the wirings, scaling factors, temperature offsets etc. And they can even use specific, undocumented ways to retrieve the values. Are you using such a proprietary tool under Windows on your laptop? There also are some third-party tools such as Motherboard Monitor (discontinued) or Speedfan reporting hardware monitoring information under Windows, but they face the same problems we do: they don't have the details about how the hardware is wired nor what the BIOS does. Also, you shouldn't assume that what your Windows tool is doing is safe. As I explained in comment #38, there is a race condition. Maybe a proprietary tool has a way to work around it, but it could also be that the programmers either didn't realize there was such a race condition, or assumed that it was unlikely enough to be ignored - something we aren't willing to do in Linux. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
