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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-07-14 15:29:34 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2008-07-14 15:29:34 -0600
commit2fceef397f9880b212a74c418290ce69e7ac00eb (patch)
treed9cc09ab992825ef7fede4a688103503e3caf655 /drivers/acpi/thermal.c
parentfeae1ef116ed381625d3731c5ae4f4ebcb3fa302 (diff)
parentbce7f793daec3e65ec5c5705d2457b81fe7b5725 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/thermal.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/thermal.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
index 504385b1f21..84c795fb9b1 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
@@ -364,10 +364,17 @@ static int acpi_thermal_trips_update(struct acpi_thermal *tz, int flag)
if (flag & ACPI_TRIPS_CRITICAL) {
status = acpi_evaluate_integer(tz->device->handle,
"_CRT", NULL, &tz->trips.critical.temperature);
- if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ /*
+ * Treat freezing temperatures as invalid as well; some
+ * BIOSes return really low values and cause reboots at startup.
+ * Below zero (Celcius) values clearly aren't right for sure..
+ * ... so lets discard those as invalid.
+ */
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) ||
+ tz->trips.critical.temperature <= 2732) {
tz->trips.critical.flags.valid = 0;
ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status,
- "No critical threshold"));
+ "No or invalid critical threshold"));
return -ENODEV;
} else {
tz->trips.critical.flags.valid = 1;