From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 [cannot change thermal trip points] Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:42:43 -0400 Message-ID: <200705171842.44134.lenb@kernel.org> References: <20070515201914.16944e04.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200705171508.40202.lenb@kernel.org> <20070517215321.GC7336@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58062 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754630AbXEQWpY (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 18:45:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070517215321.GC7336@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Maciej Rutecki , Chuck Ebbert , len.brown@intel.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org > Something similar happened to me on XE3, yes. > > (Actual values were different; BIOS specified critical temperature at > cca 95C, but hw killed the power at cca 83C. Setting critical trip > point at 80C made the problem go away.) Great, please file a bug and include the acpidump from the XE3 and we'll fix it, rather than supporting a bogus (manual) workaround for it. Of course if your system is running at 80*C and the hardware shuts off at 83*C, you may have a broken fan, or one clogged with dust... -Len