Re: [ACPI] [PATCHES] ACPI Processor update [idle, throttling, thermal, cpufreq]

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2003-09-09T17:21:35Z

Hi Pavel,

Glad you liked [at least parts] of my patches.

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:29:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq_tmp/acpi-2.6.0-test4-processor_thermal_throttling
> > Move throttling into its own submodule, and register it with the new
> > passive cooling module. Also, the now-useless "limit" interface is
> > removed.
> >
>
> Actually I liked to be able to echo 0:7 > limit and conserve battery/
> make sure machine does not overheat with it...

echo 7 > throttling should do the same thing. However, don't expect any
battey conservation if ACPI C2 throttling works, and to set custom levels
against "overheating" there's a write access to
/proc/acpi/thermal/*/trip_points too...

Dominik