Re: [PATCH 0/6] [resend] thermal: improvements re. forced passivecooling

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:38:58 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Please consider this patch set for 2.6.32. It was previously submitted
> for 2.6.31, but AFAICT it has not yet been picked up.
> 
> All patches have been acked by either Rui or Matthew, with the
> exception of 1/6 and 4/6, but the entire series has been implicitly
> acked by Rui in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13918#c26.
> 
> The patch set closes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13918.
> 
> Andrew, could you take the set just in case?
> 

I'm trying to work out what the actual bug is in here.

afacit some KDE tool put wrong numbers into /proc files, acpi didn't
sanity check them sufficiently and permitted the CPU to overheat, yes?

There seems to be rather a lot of non-bugfix stuff in this patch
series.  Perhaps too much for 2.6.32, and a real problem if we want to
backport something into 2.6.31.x and earlier.


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