Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:05:11 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points |
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> Set a taint flag,
That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards.
> print a loud message
Neither.
You'll just end up with "Linux destroyed my laptop" headlines all over the internet and rightfully very annoyed users.
> Or have you forgotten the original Unix > philosophy too ?
The philosophy didn't include physically destroying hardware as far as I know.
> > > Here we had obviously-useful-to-you functionality which was taken away > > > without, afaik, providing any alternative. > > > > I don't think it's that unreasonable to require source code modifications > > for anything that can kill hardware. > > As root you can erase the bios,
We don't ship the devbios driver for good reasons.
> lock the hard disk with a random > password, reflash your video card ....
That all requires significant effort and custom software. It's not that we have a one liner echo destroy > /sys/.../flash-bios.
-Andi
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