Comment 4 for bug 298798

The patch mentioned in the upstream report is already available in Intrepid which has a 2.6.27 based kernel.

ogasawara@yoji:~/ubuntu-intrepid$ git log 4ef664b5bc93bbfe28513165216a8c9f4fad5314

commit 4ef664b5bc93bbfe28513165216a8c9f4fad5314

Author: Alistair John Strachan <email address hidden>

Date: Fri Aug 15 00:40:39 2008 -0700

    abituguru3: prefer DMI probing to manual probing

    Previously the driver was only using DMI to prevent smbus probing on

    non-Abit motherboards. However, since the manual probing method is

    brittle and prone to failure on some Abit motherboards (esp. the Abit

    IP35 Pro) it is better to use DMI to also read the board name and then

    decide whether or not to probe the bus.

    At the moment, we do not have a list of valid DMI name strings to use

    for existing and supported motherboards. This patch only implements DMI

    probing for the IP35 Pro. For motherboards that can not yet use DMI

    probing, a warning will be printed to the kernel log asking those users

    to email me their dmidecode output.

    The existing manual probing mechanism will be used if CONFIG_DMI is not

    enabled, if DMI probing fails (for DMI-unsupported motherboards), or if

    DMI probing fails and the "force" option is set (for DMI-supported

    motherboards). Ideally in the longer term this manual probing method

    would be removed.

    This patch should be safe to apply as it does not change the probing

    behaviour for most of the supported motherboards, just the IP35 Pro,

    which already has regressions filed against it in 2.6.26.

    Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11212

    Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan <email address hidden>

    Acked-by: Hans de Goede <email address hidden>

    Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <email address hidden>

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <email address hidden>

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <email address hidden>