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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	trenn@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] Implement thermal limiting in the generic thermal class
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:56:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080618095646.GA20079@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <823A93EED437D048963A3697DB0E35DE0171191C@pdsmsx414.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:28:01PM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> One thing I'm concerning is that if we could enable polling in Linux.
> Bug #8842 shows that polling may break some laptops.
> And we have known that windows never enable polling.
> Although this patch will not break the laptop in #8842, it still may
> bring some potential risks if we enable polling in Linux.
> IMO, a dmi entry would be much more acceptable...

If it breaks anything, we can revisit the decision. I'd be surprised if 
it did.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-18  9:57 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
2008-06-18  9:28       ` Zhang, Rui
2008-06-18  9:56         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-06-17 15:54 ` [PATCH] Clean up thermal API Pavel Machek
2008-06-17 15:59 ` Pavel Machek

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