From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a passive cooling trip point if the firmware doesn't define one Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:02:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20080515120234.GA23538@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080514010000.GB21608@srcf.ucam.org> <20080514010300.GC21608@srcf.ucam.org> <20080514010820.GD21608@srcf.ucam.org> <200805132330.20159.lenb@kernel.org> <87iqxfzt4f.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:43128 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751364AbYEOMDD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 08:03:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87iqxfzt4f.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:47:28PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to add a D610 specific quirk that > simply adds a trip point for that machine only? > > As long as the problem is not wide-spread over many models > a quirk is a reasonable solution. There are plenty of other machines that have this issue, but there doesn't seem to be any especially good pattern to them. In marginal cases it may even depend on the manufacturing batch. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org