From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756817AbYILTqx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:46:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753529AbYILTqo (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:46:44 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:47712 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752615AbYILTqo (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:46:44 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: QZt+x2FoDkF3GTikpxIrVENeY7nsAnUplgY6QEbZBJQk 1221248802 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:46:35 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Andi Kleen Cc: Pavel Machek , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Milan Broz Subject: Re: [patch 00/42] 2.6.26-stable review Message-ID: <20080912194634.GA32638@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20080903172447.GA7731@suse.de> <20080904023905.GA1071@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20080912142251.GA6028@ucw.cz> <48CA8CAA.1000004@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48CA8CAA.1000004@linux.intel.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> On Wed 2008-09-03 23:39:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> What about this one: >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f497bcc695fb828da023d74ad3c966b1e58ad21 >>> >>> "ACPI: Fix thermal shutdowns" ? >>> >>> It should have been submitted to stable@k.o well before 2.6.26.3, but it >>> wasn't for some stupid reason. Then some of us noticed it was missing in >>> 2.6.26.3, and gave everyone a head's up, but it was too late for 2.6.26.3. >>> >>> And now it also apparently failed to make it to 2.6.26.4? >>> >>> As far as I recall, without this patch, all X6* ThinkPads that are not in >>> absolute top-notch thermal condition heat up until they are forced to >>> shutdown due to overtemperature (thus, slowly further damaging hardware that >>> is not in good shape to begin with). >>> >>> Greg, is there any way to include the above patch for 2.6.26.4? >> >> >> >> Agreed. This patch makes thinkpads unusable... and it was actually >> included in 2.6.26.2... > > I guess the best/safest course right now is to just revert in stable. I am not so sure. You can fix it with an one-line patch that is in mainline since before -rc4 and is known to work, or you can drop the _PPC fixes entirely. But I presume those fixes were NOT sent to stable gratuitously in the first place, so it seems safer to just fix them instead of reverting them. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh