Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760022AbXHBSim (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:38:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757119AbXHBSie (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:38:34 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:52622 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757070AbXHBSid (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:38:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:38:30 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andi Kleen , 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: <20070802183830.GA4192@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> <20070802131622.GA1234@one.firstfloor.org> <20070802155753.GB3974@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802155753.GB3974@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 26 On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. I have no problem with lowering them (in fact I proposed this to Thomas as a possible solution at some point). Just rising is a bad idea. -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/