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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-25 12:27:29 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-25 12:27:29 +0200
commit5ce001b0e56638c726270d4f9e05d46d4250dfbb (patch)
treec21cf007ddef99d5e8b23dde9621bd9152e676a8 /drivers/acpi/thermal.c
parent7c9f8861e6c9c839f913e49b98c3854daca18f27 (diff)
parent543cf4cb3fe6f6cae3651ba918b9c56200b257d0 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotectortip-stackprotector-2008-06-25_10.27_Wed
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 504385b1f211..84c795fb9b1e 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;