linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25

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Message-id: <200804181224.47198.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:24:46 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Matthew <jackdachef@...il.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25

On Friday 18 April 2008, Matthew wrote:
>Hi everyone, hi Linus,
>
>congratulations on this new great kernel-release :)
>
>I've another "regression" to report for 2.6.25:
>
>it's concerning much higher temperatures being read out by the
>"coretemp" kernel-module in comparison to 2.6.24* series
>
>e.g. where temperatures were around 40-47°C they are now constantly
>jumping around 55-70°C (even in idle !)
>
>several other users/testers have reported this issue too (both on
>zen-sources [heavy patched] & latest gentoo-sources) [slightly
>patched]:
>
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-684812-highlight-.html
>
>if I understood git right it (also) happens in conjunction with an 3
>weeks old acpi-snapshot
>(http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/zen-sources.git?a=heads) integrated in
>zen-sources
>
>I can "reproduce" this on an Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 (Conroe) with a P5W
>DH Deluxe mainboard (by Asus) since at least 2.6.25-rc8 (or possibly
>also rc7)
>
>the temperatures on mobile core (2) duo intel processors [e.g. an
>T7500] seem to be read out correctly - I can't tell it exactly but
>this seems to be an entirely "cosmetical" issue
>(hopefully it's not the opposite and the values are now read out
>correctly since such high temps would be very worrying ;) )
>
>Keep up the great work & please don't forget your growing amount of
>linux-desktop users :)
>
Amen on that.  And to add confusion here, my makeit script started dying when 
I do a remake after changing a config option, cuz it can't find a System.map 
file to delete, even if I copy it in from /boot.  I had to delete the make 
clean line of the script. Odd.

>Regards
>
>Mat
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