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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/6] thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute
    On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:17:23PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
    > Values below 40000 milli-celsius (limit is somewhat arbitrary)
    > don't make sense and can cause the system to go into a thermal
    > heart attack: the actual temperature will always be lower and
    > thus the system will be throttled down to its lowest setting.

    Not keen on this - it's a pretty arbitrary cutoff, and there are some
    cases where someone might want this value. Policy belongs in userspace,
    and all that.

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    Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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