Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756034AbXHBMF3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:05:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753660AbXHBMFP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:05:15 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:52107 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753952AbXHBMFO (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:05:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:05:11 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Alan Cox Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Knut Petersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trenn@suse.de, pavel@ucw.cz, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points Message-ID: <20070802120511.GA440@one.firstfloor.org> References: <46B1988C.3090302@t-online.de> <20070802015248.45a40717.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070802120014.1d08830a@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802120014.1d08830a@the-village.bc.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 40 > Set a taint flag, That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards. > print a loud message Neither. You'll just end up with "Linux destroyed my laptop" headlines all over the internet and rightfully very annoyed users. > Or have you forgotten the original Unix > philosophy too ? The philosophy didn't include physically destroying hardware as far as I know. > > > Here we had obviously-useful-to-you functionality which was taken away > > > without, afaik, providing any alternative. > > > > I don't think it's that unreasonable to require source code modifications > > for anything that can kill hardware. > > As root you can erase the bios, We don't ship the devbios driver for good reasons. > lock the hard disk with a random > password, reflash your video card .... That all requires significant effort and custom software. It's not that we have a one liner echo destroy > /sys/.../flash-bios. -Andi - 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/