From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, eaburns@cisunix.unh.edu
Subject: Re: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature always reports 40C - is this a bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610131334.48433.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610130117.02392.len.brown@intel.com>
On Friday, 13 October 2006 07:17, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:03, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ethan, at http://bugs.gentoo.org/142635 reports that the thermal zone
> > always reads 40C. Is this something that should be filed at the kernel
> > bugzilla for further investigation, or can we simply blame a
> > buggy/unfixable BIOS? I understand that i2c/hwmon is the more common way
> > of measuring temperatures.
>
> Probably this isn't specific to a gentoo build and would happen just
> the same with a kernel.org build. So if it is a bug, it is probably an upstream bug.
>
> However, unless it used to work, or something bad happens,
> this is sort of an academic failure. I suppose if you ran Windows
> on the box and it displayed a changing temperature via ACPI
> but Linux does not, then it would be more interesting.
>
> It would be good to verify that ACPI events in general
> are working on the box -- eg. the power button etc -- as a failure
> there would also be more interesting than unchanging temperature.
I guess it may be related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534
Greetings,
Rafael
--
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 1:03 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature always reports 40C - is this a bug? Daniel Drake
2006-10-13 5:17 ` Len Brown
2006-10-13 11:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2006-10-15 19:50 ` Daniel Drake
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