http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13967





--- Comment #7 from Zeev Tarantov <[email protected]>  2009-08-17 
14:55:15 ---
So the intent was to break lm_sensors in 2.6.30, but because of a bug it
continued to work as the user expects and will only break in 2.6.31.

Users who want to keep using lm_sensors on boards that do not spontaneously
shutdown due to conflict between lm_sensors and the BIOS (this I believe is a
majority of users) will need to add a kernel boot parameter to signal the
paranoid kernel that their computer is sane, or if they're ASUS users they can
switch to the "ASUS ATK0110 ACPI hwmon" driver
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125043293401414).

I suppose lm_sensors team can add this workaround to the installation
documentation, and all distros will just ship a patch that adds the boot
parameter if a non-ACPI hwmon driver is required for the computer, and if a
user has spontaneous shutdown syndrome they'll be told by tech support to
disable the boot parameter and live without temperature monitoring and/or
complain to manufacturer to get BIOS/linux driver for ACPI hwmon.

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