Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 07:58:12 EST


On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I strongly suspect that the vast majority[1] of hardware that "needs"
> > the trip points changing works perfectly well under Windows, so it's
>
> Windows as I understand it has vendor mechanisms to allow the bits
> shipped with the OS to override/ignore just about everything trip points
> included. Lots of hardware that requires fixups in Linux and just works
> in Windows is not Linux bugs but Windows magic .inf files and other
> registry gunge done by the machine vendor. We see this in ATA, in power
> management and elsewhere.

I've seen no evidence that this happens with thermal trip points.
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