Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 14:40:45 EST


On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:38:30PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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.

Though for this to be reliable, you need to ignore any notifications
that would raise the trip points while still paying attention to any
that would lower them.

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