Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758214AbXHBP6S (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:58:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756525AbXHBP6J (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:58:09 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4894 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755797AbXHBP6I (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:58:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:57:54 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Knut Petersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trenn@suse.de, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points Message-ID: <20070802155753.GB3974@ucw.cz> 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> <20070802131622.GA1234@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802131622.GA1234@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 23 On Thu 2007-08-02 15:16:22, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. Yes, but it was original BIOS trip points that were wrong. And yes, its failsafe shutdown was too late. At least lowering the trip points would allow me to run it safely. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/