From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 [cannot change thermal trip points] Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:29:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20070521132948.GD8332@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070515201914.16944e04.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200705171517.14087.lenb@kernel.org> <1179604609.16465.83.camel@sublime.suse.de> <200705202350.45145.lenb@kernel.org> <20070521121048.GA8332@elf.ucw.cz> <20070521132711.GA7540@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:41079 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755554AbXEUN34 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 09:29:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070521132711.GA7540@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Len Brown , trenn@suse.de, Chuck Ebbert , len.brown@intel.com, Maciej Rutecki , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Hi! > > > For folks with the reverse problem -- active cooling where the > > > fans kick in early than they'd like, they should just turn off > > > the fans via /proc/acpi/fan and not mess with the trip points at > > > all. > > > > No. Manually turning off fans is even worse hack. > > It's significantly more correct. Significantly more correct? It forces you to do all the thermal management in userspace! Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html