On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: R.Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@xxxxxxxxx> > > This patch makes the thermal trip points 'write'able. > Thus, enabling the trip points to be configured at runtime. > Please review and apply. We've been through this with ACPI, and the decision was NOT to allow writable trip points. The reason is that the FIRMWARE is responsible for deciding when to notify Linux if when a trip point actually trips -- and if the firmware doesn't know that your trip point has moved, then its notifications effectively become random, and the user has been fooled into thinking that the trip point they moved actually does something, when it may do nothing. The only way to fix that is to POLL, and nobody likes polling. Thus, no writable trip points. thanks, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
