On Thu 2007-08-02 15:16:22, Andi Kleen wrote:
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> 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.

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