Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:56:49 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/42] 2.6.26-stable review |
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On Fri 2008-09-12 16:46:35, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> On Wed 2008-09-03 23:39:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >>> What about this one: > >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f497bcc695fb828da023d74ad3c966b1e58ad21 > >>> > >>> "ACPI: Fix thermal shutdowns" ? > >>> > >>> It should have been submitted to stable@k.o well before 2.6.26.3, but it > >>> wasn't for some stupid reason. Then some of us noticed it was missing in > >>> 2.6.26.3, and gave everyone a head's up, but it was too late for 2.6.26.3. > >>> > >>> And now it also apparently failed to make it to 2.6.26.4? > >>> > >>> As far as I recall, without this patch, all X6* ThinkPads that are not in > >>> absolute top-notch thermal condition heat up until they are forced to > >>> shutdown due to overtemperature (thus, slowly further damaging hardware that > >>> is not in good shape to begin with). > >>> > >>> Greg, is there any way to include the above patch for 2.6.26.4? > >> > >> > >> > >> Agreed. This patch makes thinkpads unusable... and it was actually > >> included in 2.6.26.2... > > > > I guess the best/safest course right now is to just revert in stable. > > I am not so sure. You can fix it with an one-line patch that is in mainline > since before -rc4 and is known to work, or you can drop the _PPC fixes > entirely. But I presume those fixes were NOT sent to stable gratuitously in > the first place, so it seems safer to just fix them instead of reverting > them.
Agreed. Bugfix was tested and is pretty obvious.
...but complete revert is still better than keeping 'thinpkad-cooking' bug. Pavel
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