Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:49:47 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22 regression: thermal trip points |
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On Tue 2007-08-07 14:58:45, Len Brown wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007 05:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > For the > > > upstream kernel, I think it is more appropriate to expose and fix > > > the fundamental problems. For distro kernels, I'm less concerned > > > if you hide bugs instead of fixing them. > > > > This is okay as long as you are willing to work around the fundamental > > problems in kernel. You are unable to _fix_ them. They are broken > > BIOSes. > > The thing Linux needs to figure out is why Windows doesn't > get confused by what Linux claims to be broken BIOS.
Why do you assume that Windows work? Yes, they probably will not have 'machine runs at 50% speed' problem, but I'd be very surprised if critical shutdown worked properly on more than 90% of notebooks....
> So far I have one live sighting to be addressed by > the upstream kernel (from Knut). I'm certainly looking > forward to the 2nd live sighting...
Ok, I guess I should steal that old xe3 I was talking about...
Vojtech, could I have that machine from table football room for a few experiments? I keep using it as counterexample. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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