HDAPS

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:34 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

Yes, you are probably correct. I'll start a thread on LKML.

Richard.