From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752556AbYFRJCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:02:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751617AbYFRJBy (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:01:54 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2392 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751261AbYFRJBx (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:01:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:53:45 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Garrett Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch v2] Implement thermal limiting in the generic thermal class Message-ID: <20080617185345.GA5847@ucw.cz> References: <20080611100647.GA20013@srcf.ucam.org> <20080616085544.GA17813@srcf.ucam.org> <20080616092648.GA18506@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080616092648.GA18506@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > In the absence of an explicitly defined passive cooling zone any > machine unable to manage its thermal profile through active cooling will > reach its critical shutdown temperature and power off, resulting in > potential data loss. Add support to the generic thermal class for > initiating passive cooling at a temperature defaulting to just below the > critical temperature, with this value being overridable by the admin via > sysfs. This means we get two copies of passive cooling code: one generic, and one in acpi. Can we make sure we have just one of them? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html