On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:40:58AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > I have reviewed the information available on the thermal problems with > > HP laptops, and it appears that there is a fairly conservative set of > > patches which takes care of the problems (thanks to Bas for pointing > > most of the out). I might have missed some upstream bugs, so please > > let me know if there is anything else available on the issue. Below is > > the summary, describing the relevant patches: > > i nack the mentioned patches!
Well, that's one in favor and one vote against then. > backports are risky, again as you see for the net-r8169-1.patch, > that is a "localized" driver enhancement with big slow down consequences > #400524 and #403782. yes upstream has a fix for that and it should > land soon, but still no one else bothered yet. That's because slower networking will not break your hardware. > the acpi patches may solve the troubles with those stupid HP laptops, > but they have _certainly_ side effects. > if you look at the acpi commits of this day you see that they broke > a toshiba laptop. Do you have a reference to that? And we do have a possibility to test the changes pretty extensively by uploading to unstable plus specifically asking people to test. > back to the facts > * the sarge kernel was released with *huge* thermal problems > and without any userspace help for early loading > * the etch 2.6.18 linux acpi supports *many* thermal boxes > thermal hooks load modules at earliest possible stage > * acpi releases have regression tests that are only run > for the complete release itself > > the sanest way is to disable acpi for the affected laptops > and push a newer linux in a point release. Do you have a patch which does that? If that would exist, I might reconsider my position. > playing with acpi fire is not appropriate for a stable release. It's all about cost/benefit analysis. In my eyes the benefits of introducing these patches significantly outweighs the possible problems, given the proper testing. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
