Re: [patch 00/42] 2.6.26-stable review

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Sep 13 2008 - 12:57:18 EST


On Fri 2008-09-12 16:46:35, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> On Wed 2008-09-03 23:39:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >>> What about this one:
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f497bcc695fb828da023d74ad3c966b1e58ad21
> >>>
> >>> "ACPI: Fix thermal shutdowns" ?
> >>>
> >>> It should have been submitted to stable@xxx well before 2.6.26.3, but it
> >>> wasn't for some stupid reason. Then some of us noticed it was missing in
> >>> 2.6.26.3, and gave everyone a head's up, but it was too late for 2.6.26.3.
> >>>
> >>> And now it also apparently failed to make it to 2.6.26.4?
> >>>
> >>> As far as I recall, without this patch, all X6* ThinkPads that are not in
> >>> absolute top-notch thermal condition heat up until they are forced to
> >>> shutdown due to overtemperature (thus, slowly further damaging hardware that
> >>> is not in good shape to begin with).
> >>>
> >>> Greg, is there any way to include the above patch for 2.6.26.4?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Agreed. This patch makes thinkpads unusable... and it was actually
> >> included in 2.6.26.2...
> >
> > I guess the best/safest course right now is to just revert in stable.
>
> I am not so sure. You can fix it with an one-line patch that is in mainline
> since before -rc4 and is known to work, or you can drop the _PPC fixes
> entirely. But I presume those fixes were NOT sent to stable gratuitously in
> the first place, so it seems safer to just fix them instead of reverting
> them.

Agreed. Bugfix was tested and is pretty obvious.

...but complete revert is still better than keeping 'thinpkad-cooking'
bug.
Pavel

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