[ltp] thinkpad hwmon device switch randomly every reboot

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Yonggang Guo wrote:
> The fancontrol script use configure file: /etc/fancontrol, which use hwmon1
> to control the fan.

It is broken, then.

> But the thinkpad_hwmon switch randomly between hwmon0 and hwmon1 after
> reboot.

Yes.  hwmon device numbering is first-come, first-served.

> How to set the thinkpad_hwmon to a fix position? Thanks!

You cannot.  If anything loads before it, or wins a race to see who
registers a hwmon device first, it will change position.

The fix is to teach fancontrol to locate the device it needs like
libsensors does.  If it can already do that, you should configure it
accordingly (I don't use it, so I can't say).

Meanwhile, use a more stable path (/sys/devices/platform/...) as a
workaround.

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  Henrique Holschuh