On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:57:54PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2007-08-02 15:16:22, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > Set a taint flag, > > > > That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards. > > > > > > It won't be the hardware will do a failsafe shutdown first. > > > > Not necessarily. At SUSE we had at least one broken laptop > > with wrong trip points. The machine ran very hot for some time > > and afterwards the hard disk was dead. > > Yes, but it was original BIOS trip points that were wrong. And yes, > its failsafe shutdown was too late. At least lowering the trip points > would allow me to run it safely.
I have no problem with lowering them (in fact I proposed this to Thomas as a possible solution at some point). Just rising is a bad idea. -Andi - 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/
