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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:29:48PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > No. Manually turning off fans is even worse hack.
> > 
> > It's significantly more correct.
> 
> Significantly more correct? It forces you to do all the thermal
> management in userspace!

Why's that a problem? Overriding the hardware policy has to be done 
somewhere, and doing it in userspace is no more dangerous than 
kernelspace.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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