SRU Bug #242761 - hwmon: (lm78) Fix I/O resource conflict with PNP

Tue Jun 24 20:53:15 UTC 2008

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:49 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact: The lm-sensors module fails to load on some motherboards
> 
> Patch Description: Only request I/O ports 0x295-0x296 instead of the
> full I/O address range. This solves a conflict with PNP resources on a
> few motherboards.
> 
> Patch: Upstream cherry-pick
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commit;h=12c0aa7d1af0468d5c8941ee30056bc3e74c2c07
> 
> Test Case: See Bug description.

On initial inspection, there doesn't appear to be chance for ABI
changes. Looks safe, so ACK.