On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
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> > I strongly suspect that the vast majority[1] of hardware that "needs" 
> > the trip points changing works perfectly well under Windows, so it's 
> 
> Windows as I understand it has vendor mechanisms to allow the bits
> shipped with the OS to override/ignore just about everything trip points
> included. Lots of hardware that requires fixups in Linux and just works
> in Windows is not Linux bugs but Windows magic .inf files and other
> registry gunge done by the machine vendor. We see this in ATA, in power
> management and elsewhere.

I've seen no evidence that this happens with thermal trip points.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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