Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 08:47:55 EST


On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:18PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > That machine has no active thermal trip points, so I'm not sure how it's
> > relevant here.
> >From above: "Windows as I understand it has vendor mechanisms to..."
> Maybe thermal trip points are not influenced here, it's at least about
> thermal management and another prove that we cannot just try to copy
> Windows behavior, but need to provide workarounds wherever possible.

There's absolutely no evidence in the bug log there that the user's
problems are in any way due to Windows-specific code. The SetSilentMode
stuff is an additional item of functionality that underclocks various
bits of hardware, not one that's actually required for the platform to
function correctly.
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