Bug#568126: lm-sensors: Resource conflicts policy in kernel has changed

[Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>]

Package: lm-sensors
Severity: normal


This looks like a consequence of a recent change in kernel policy
regarding resource conflicts.  According to the 'kernel-parameters.txt'
file in the kernel documentation, the default value of the parameter
"acpi_enforce_resources" has changed:

$ grep -A 15 acpi_enforce_resources Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 
	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
			{ strict | lax | no }
			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
			can interfere with legacy drivers.
			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
			no further checks are performed.

I recently resolved a very similar issue myself by adding
"acpi_enforce_resources=lax" to my kernel boot line in GRUB.


HTH,
Dave W.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2-0git+k10temp+f71889fg+r600fix.091222.desktop.kms (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lm-sensors depends on:
ii  libc6                2.10.2-5            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libsensors4          1:3.1.1-4+svn091221 library to read temperature/voltag
ii  lsb-base             3.2-23              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl                 5.10.1-9            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                  4.2.1-6             The GNU sed stream editor

lm-sensors recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lm-sensors suggests:
pn  i2c-tools                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  read-edid                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  sensord                       <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information