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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Zhao, Yakui" <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
	Peter Mahlknecht <mali100@gmx.net>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI reads wrong temperature
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:48:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103174849.GA4285@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811031246550.3132@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:47:19PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > I don't think the BIOS is doing anything wrong here. It's entitled to 
> > assume that the operating system won't load drivers for hardware it's 
> > not declaring.
> 
> agreed, we need a linux solution.

There's a kernel warning in this kind of situation, but IIRC we were 
still at the point where there were false positives.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 14:02 ACPI reads wrong temperature Peter Mahlknecht
2008-10-31 14:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-31 21:09   ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-02  9:25     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-02 11:31       ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-03  2:05         ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-03  9:01           ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-03 14:50             ` Zhao, Yakui
2008-11-03 14:57               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-03 17:47                 ` Len Brown
2008-11-03 17:48                   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-11-06  6:12                     ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-06  9:11                       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-12 22:20                         ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-12 22:27                           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-13 10:24                           ` Jean Delvare

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