Re: Changing temperature trip points

Pavel Machek
2002-11-03T22:02:51Z

Hi!

> See, now that I can understand. :)
>
> Anyway, let's see...having set temperatures to 60, 50 and 45 C
> respectively, and running a compile to move the core temperature up, the
> fan does in fact trigger at 45 C. Outstanding. I'll script it into
> changing them automatically at startup.
>
> Pavel also wrote the following:
>
> > I believe user should be clever enough to set polling rate manually.
>
> I wouldn't leave anything to the user unless it's extremely clear cut,
> particularly with the movement towards a more Windows-like Linux (see
> Bluecurve) that tries to soften the reality of Linux not being that
> friendly to the average schmuck.

No.

You only ever need to touch polling_frequency in case your hardware is
broken. If you are working around broken hardware,you'd better know
what you are doing.

Kernel is *not* meant to be user friendly. You can have your "broken
hardware setup wizard" in your distribution if you want, but not in
kernel.

Pavel
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