Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756341AbXHBNQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:16:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752526AbXHBNQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:16:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:52102 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753960AbXHBNQY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:16:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:16:22 +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: <20070802131622.GA1234@one.firstfloor.org> References: <46B1988C.3090302@t-online.de> <20070802015248.45a40717.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070802120014.1d08830a@the-village.bc.nu> <20070802120511.GA440@one.firstfloor.org> <20070802140442.62c56dbd@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802140442.62c56dbd@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: 625 Lines: 16 On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Set a taint flag, > > That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards. > > It won't be the hardware will do a failsafe shutdown first. Not necessarily. At SUSE we had at least one broken laptop with wrong trip points. The machine ran very hot for some time and afterwards the hard disk was dead. -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/