On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. What cases do you see? Testing? Or systems that might have to operate at such a low temperature? I deliberately chose a value that's at a level that's easy to reach. I agree it is arbitrary, but it will prevent major confusion when someone like me echo's 95 directly in sysfs. Would 1000 (1 °C) perhaps be more acceptable as a limit? I doubt there are valid use-cases for below 0 temps :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
