Comment 5 for bug 517897

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

It's a dirty hack, and I recommend that you don't run it. It would be better to get the ACPI issue fixed with your motherboard vendor.

"Banging IO-ports of a chip from 2 different drivers, the Linux hwmon driver and the ACPI code is a really bad idea and can cause all sort of issues (including things like changing CPU / RAM voltage or clock speed). So the old behaviour was a really bad idea. "