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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-06-13 20:52:39 -0700
commit4ae127d1b6c71f9240dd4245f240e6dd8fc98014 (patch)
treeb7aa27b3e0c655f4613fe2146cb57d7f69e421f6 /drivers/acpi/thermal.c
parent875ec4333b99144e2589e900a0bcd2c25c757b27 (diff)
parent7775c9753b94fe429dc4323360d6502c95e0dd6e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/smc911x.c
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;