Changeset 6040

Timestamp:

04/09/12 21:33:35 (14 months ago)

Author:

khali

Message:

Avoid probing EDID addresses (0x50-0x57) on graphics card adapters.
We had one report that it caused trouble:
 http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2012-April/035847.html
Even though it's not yet clear what happened, let's play it safe.
This fixes ticket #2386.

Location:

lm-sensors/trunk

Files:

• CHANGES (modified) (1 diff)
• prog/detect/sensors-detect (modified) (1 diff)

lm-sensors/trunk/CHANGES

@@ -4 +4 @@
 SVN HEAD
   sensors-detect: Don't choke on systems without PCI
+                  Avoid probing EDID addresses on graphics cards (#2386)
 
 3.3.2 (2012-03-14)

lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect

@@ -3661 +3661 @@
                 chomp($input);
                 @not_to_scan = parse_not_to_scan(0x03, 0x77, $input);
+        } elsif (($class & 0xff00) == 0x0300) {
+                # Skip EDID addresses by default on graphics adapters
+                @not_to_scan = parse_not_to_scan(0x03, 0x77, "0x50-0x57");
         }