HDAPS

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:35 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
<snip>
> IMO, the kernel is the place where over-temperature is actioned, so it
> probably makes sense for the "laptop-is-falling" code to be there too.
> But then userspace can do funcy things and set policy. Opinions
> welcomed.

Overheating isn't as time-critical as falling down. Falling down to
possible failure < 1 sec. Overheating to possible failure ~= minutes?

And there isn't much of a policy either. It should park the heads, and
tell userspace about it.

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