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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] Implement thermal limiting in the generic thermal class
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:53:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617185345.GA5847@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616092648.GA18506@srcf.ucam.org>

Hi!

> In the absence of an explicitly defined passive cooling zone any                                                                                                                                        
> machine unable to manage its thermal profile through active cooling will                                                                                                                                
> reach its critical shutdown temperature and power off, resulting in                                                                                                                                     
> potential data loss. Add support to the generic thermal class for                                                                                                                                       
> initiating passive cooling at a temperature defaulting to just below the                                                                                                                                
> critical temperature, with this value being overridable by the admin via                                                                                                                                
> sysfs.                                                                             

This means we get two copies of passive cooling code: one generic, and
one in acpi. Can we make sure we have just one of them?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-18  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-11 10:06 [PATCH] Clean up thermal API Matthew Garrett
2008-06-11 16:42 ` [PATCH] More cleanup of the " Matthew Garrett
2008-06-11 16:58   ` [RFC] Implement thermal limiting in generic thermal class Matthew Garrett
2008-06-12  2:25     ` Zhang Rui
2008-06-12  9:28       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-12  1:29   ` [PATCH] More cleanup of the thermal API Zhang Rui
2008-06-12  1:26 ` [PATCH] Clean up " Zhang Rui
2008-06-16  8:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Matthew Garrett
2008-06-16  9:26   ` [Patch v2] Implement thermal limiting in the generic thermal class Matthew Garrett
2008-06-17 18:53     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-06-18  9:28       ` Zhang, Rui
2008-06-18  9:56         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-17 15:54 ` [PATCH] Clean up thermal API Pavel Machek
2008-06-17 15:59 ` Pavel Machek

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