Comment 10 for bug 297213

@Dimitrios:
I thought about that as well, but the result is as follows:
$ sudo modprobe tp_smapi
Runs with return 0
$ dmesg | tail shows:
[22475.378515] tp_smapi 0.37 loading...
[22475.381479] tp_smapi successfully loaded (smapi_port=0xb2).
$ lsmod | grep smapi shows:
tp_smapi 29712 0
thinkpad_ec 14736 1 tp_smapi

So it seems to be up and running nicely, but a test like
$ hdaps-gl yields
open: No such file or directory

I believe this is because tp_smapi for some reason doesn't publish the sensor data at all or not at the right spot. (I forgot where it should be, but I know that I looked for the information manually and didn't find it either)