Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Set a taint flag, 
> > That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards.
> 
> It won't be the hardware will do a failsafe shutdown first.

Not necessarily. At SUSE we had at least one broken laptop
with wrong trip points. The machine ran very hot for some time
and afterwards the hard disk was dead.

-Andi
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