From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752772AbYFRJ5G (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:57:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751978AbYFRJ4w (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:56:52 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:35718 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751636AbYFRJ4v (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:56:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:56:46 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: "Zhang, Rui" Cc: Pavel Machek , 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 Message-ID: <20080618095646.GA20079@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20080611100647.GA20013@srcf.ucam.org> <20080616085544.GA17813@srcf.ucam.org> <20080616092648.GA18506@srcf.ucam.org> <20080617185345.GA5847@ucw.cz> <823A93EED437D048963A3697DB0E35DE0171191C@pdsmsx414.ccr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <823A93EED437D048963A3697DB0E35DE0171191C@pdsmsx414.ccr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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