Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757939AbXHBMGk (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:06:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757397AbXHBMGa (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:06:30 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34182 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757825AbXHBMG3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:06:29 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points From: Thomas Renninger Reply-To: trenn@suse.de To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Alan Cox , 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 In-Reply-To: <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> <20070802115743.GB29735@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Novell/SUSE Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:06:26 +0200 Message-Id: <1186056386.18821.497.camel@queen.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 24 On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 12:57 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. WMI needed for fan control -- FSC Amilo M3438G http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5670 Thomas - 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/