Hi! > > I didn't understand the arguments either, actually. > > The issue is that you can actually kill hardware by setting this wrong. > We've had such cases where trip point problems eventually lead > to overheated laptops with hard disks dying etc.
Actually, that was my machine. Omnibook xe3; BIOS provided trip points *did* kill the disk. At least I was able to work around it with writing to trip points. Yes, ACPI mandates emergency shutdown when critical+delta point is reached, *in hardware*. So this only endangers very broken machines, and it also fixes lot of them. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/