Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 [cannot change thermal trip points]

From: Stefan Seyfried
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 05:23:59 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:06:36AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> We need to ignore trip point updates from BIOS, and we need to poll
> thermals when use overrides trip points. That's expected. Plus I've
> yet to see platform actually updating the trip points.

Thinkpad 600, whenever a trip point is crossed, all trip points are updated.
I think they implemented hysteresis that way.
ISTR that hp nx5000 did something similar, but i might be wrong on this one.
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Stefan Seyfried
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