From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:23:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20090826162342.GA15868@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1251303445-25317-1-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl> <1251303445-25317-5-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:33419 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751632AbZHZQXt (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:23:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1251303445-25317-5-git-send-email-elendil@planet.nl> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Frans Pop Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Rui On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:17:23PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Values below 40000 milli-celsius (limit is somewhat arbitrary) > don't make sense and can cause the system to go into a thermal > heart attack: the actual temperature will always be lower and > thus the system will be throttled down to its lowest setting. Not keen on this - it's a pretty arbitrary cutoff, and there are some cases where someone might want this value. Policy belongs in userspace, and all that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org