Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:02:21 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: trenn@suse.de
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       Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points
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> Anyway, only solution/workaround to use these machines with current
> kernels is to override trip points, maybe the patch should really just
> be reverted...

The question really is whether the vendors will all revert it and carry
it as a patch or whether the main tree will accept reality on this one.

Reverting it and adding a taint marker if you do it is much preferable I
suspect to having every vendor revert this bogus if well meaning
changeset.

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