linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

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Message-ID: <20070802124729.GB30304@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:47:29 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Adrian Schröter <adrian@...e.de>,
	Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	pavel@....cz, lenb@...nel.org, "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:18PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > That machine has no active thermal trip points, so I'm not sure how it's 
> > relevant here.
> >From above: "Windows as I understand it has vendor mechanisms to..."
> Maybe thermal trip points are not influenced here, it's at least about
> thermal management and another prove that we cannot just try to copy
> Windows behavior, but need to provide workarounds wherever possible.

There's absolutely no evidence in the bug log there that the user's 
problems are in any way due to Windows-specific code. The SetSilentMode 
stuff is an additional item of functionality that underclocks various 
bits of hardware, not one that's actually required for the platform to 
function correctly.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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