[Intrepid, Jaunty] SRU: hwmon: (abituguru3) Match partial DMI board name strings

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Sat Apr 4 14:03:46 UTC 2009


https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298798

SRU justification:

Impact: There are a certain variation in the string provided by some mainbord
        manufactures in the name they provide in the DMI information between
        BIOS releases. The abituguru3 is a sensor driver that matched very
        strictly to certain names and it was found this causes boards which
        run well before, not to be detected after switching to DMI matching.
Fix: backported patch from upstream which loosens the checking to match
     partial strings instread of the long versions.

Testcase: Driver would not load with certain boards. Verified to be working
          after applying the patch.





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