From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a passive cooling trip point if the firmware doesn't define one
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:47:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqxfzt4f.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805132330.20159.lenb@kernel.org> (Len Brown's message of "Tue, 13 May 2008 23:30:20 -0400")
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> writes:
>
> Yes, I'm aware of the Dell D610, and I'm truly sorry
> that Dell built a machine with a poor thermal solution,
> didn't supply _PSV, and somehow looked after Windows
> without looking after Linux.
Do you know how it works in Windows?
> But I'm not willing to screw up Linux for the
> benefit of an obsolete screwed up Dell laptop.
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.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-14 1:00 [PATCH] Fix polling policy in the absence of _TZP Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 1:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add a list of processor objects to the ACPI core Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 1:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add a passive cooling trip point if the firmware doesn't define one Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 3:30 ` Len Brown
2008-05-14 9:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 15:37 ` Len Brown
2008-05-14 23:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-15 0:55 ` Zhang Rui
2008-05-15 1:04 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1210814699.2929.10.camel@rzhang-crestline.sh.intel.com>
[not found] ` <20080515015831.GA14829@srcf.ucam.org>
2008-05-15 2:15 ` Zhang Rui
2008-05-15 2:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-15 3:06 ` Zhang Rui
2008-05-15 11:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-15 11:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-05-15 12:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 3:19 ` [PATCH] Fix polling policy in the absence of _TZP Len Brown
2008-05-14 10:14 ` Matthew Garrett
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