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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, lenb@kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rui.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 08/12] thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:42:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911172342.58802.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091117223340.GB23531@srcf.ucam.org>

On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> As noted before, I'm not a fan of this approach - I can't think of many
> reasons why it'd be necessary to use temperatures below 1 degree C, but
> this constraint isn't present anywhere else in the thermal code and,
> really, there's plenty of things that people can break if they just echo
> incorrect values into /sys.

Personally I'd be in favor of adding more sanity checks rather than 
removing them. The cost of the check is virtually zero.

Cheers,
FJP

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 22:27 [patch 08/12] thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute akpm
2009-11-17 22:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-17 22:42   ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-11-17 22:52     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-17 23:07       ` Frans Pop
2009-11-17 23:12         ` Frans Pop

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