From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: Changing temperature trip points Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 23:14:25 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021103231425.C19750@brodo.de> References: <20021103220251.GC28704@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <000301c28385$b68eb510$c200a8c0@pikachu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000301c28385$b68eb510$c200a8c0-3ycpsohRb2Y@public.gmane.org>; from nrhudy-plZrL8KR64B+CIkdHa1UOg@public.gmane.org on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:09:43PM -0500 Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Edmund Rhudy Cc: 'Pavel Machek' , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:09:43PM -0500, Edmund Rhudy wrote: > My point is more that it might be better to assume that things won't > work. This isn't a sound driver. This is something that the life of > the computer depends on, and if somebody's processor melts down because > they didn't read some piece of kernel documentation that they didn't > even know existed, ... or which even does not exist yet ... > they're not likely to be particularly forgiving and > think "Oh, it was my fault for not realising that my hardware was > broken, I'll be more careful next time". While we're protected by the GPL so that nobody can sue us because of this, we should try to be a bit "friendly". And it doesn't lose us anything. Dominik ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com