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Message-ID: <20070802183830.GA4192@one.firstfloor.org> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:38:30 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trenn@...e.de, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, lenb@...nel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2007-08-02 15:16:22, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Set a taint flag, > > > > That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards. > > > > > > It won't be the hardware will do a failsafe shutdown first. > > > > Not necessarily. At SUSE we had at least one broken laptop > > with wrong trip points. The machine ran very hot for some time > > and afterwards the hard disk was dead. > > Yes, but it was original BIOS trip points that were wrong. And yes, > its failsafe shutdown was too late. At least lowering the trip points > would allow me to run it safely. I have no problem with lowering them (in fact I proposed this to Thomas as a possible solution at some point). Just rising is a bad idea. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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