On Saturday 20 February 2010 05:57:30 am Len Brown wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Thomas Renninger wrote: > i agree with the 1st patch, > as I said, if it built cleanly (hint hint) I'd apply it. Coming soon. > > Now you need at least one. > > > > My patch sticks to the spec and only discards the thermal zone if there > > is no trip point at all. In this case you want to throw a (firmware bug) > > message as something is obviously wrong. > > This is the non-obvious part. > Yes, a thermal zone that has no trip point doesn't follow the spec. > I don't know if any exist or not, but I don't see any harm if they do. > I think it would be dandy for linuxfirmware test kit to look > for this BIOS issue, but I don't see how the user is helped > if the kernel looks for it. All the get is an additional > kernel message and perhaps the loss of the ability to > tell the temperature when perhaps they could before. > That doesn't sound like a step forward. Thinking about this again: I fully agree. Just ignore the 2nd patch. Thanks, Thomas -- 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