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Subject: [acpi-jp 1073] Re: Fixes for cmbat and ec, new ioctl for the 
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> >> Great!  I have one thing to suggest on your patch.
> >> We could always have the latest temperature value reported by notify
> >> handler, and just return the value rather than evaluating _TMP every
> >> time.
> > 
> > Ok, will do.
>
> This didn't work out so well, as my laptop doesn't send notify events
> when the temperature changes.  With the version that probes on each
> read of the ioctl, the temperature does change sometimes.  When just
> depending on the notify handler, it is never updated.  I'm not too
> surprised as my laptop has other bugs as well.  (It doesn't report a
> not-present battery with a state of 2, instead, it claims that it has a normal
> battery with 0 voltage and 0 capacity.  It also reports a battery drain rate of
> 0.)

I'm working on thermal code; I have most of it sorted out now (except 
passive cooling, which requires the CPU driver to work).  Please don't 
expend any substantial effort on this.

I hope to be back in the SF area by early next month.

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