Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

[Thomas Renninger]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 12:57 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

WMI needed for fan control -- FSC Amilo M3438G
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5670

   Thomas

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