Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757239AbXHBL6K (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:58:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754207AbXHBL55 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:57:57 -0400 Received: from 78-32-9-130.no-dns-yet.enta.net ([78.32.9.130]:38147 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752972AbXHBL54 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:57:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:57:43 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Cox Cc: trenn@suse.de, Adrian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6ter?= , Knut Petersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , pavel@ucw.cz, lenb@kernel.org, "Zhang, Rui" , Jean Delvare , Alexey Starikovskiy Message-ID: <20070802115743.GB29735@srcf.ucam.org> References: <46B1988C.3090302@t-online.de> <1186047747.18821.450.camel@queen.suse.de> <200708021145.09377.adrian@suse.de> <1186048701.18821.459.camel@queen.suse.de> <20070802120221.5474e732@the-village.bc.nu> <20070802111327.GA29002@srcf.ucam.org> <20070802125947.4a1ff933@the-village.bc.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802125947.4a1ff933@the-village.bc.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:35:45 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on vavatch.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 19 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/