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edac i5000: fix thermal issues
authorAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:04:32 +0000 (22:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:21:48 +0000 (11:21 -0700)
commit2b727984678b7f577265691bf2727df0b0f05965
tree188d2cd9979ae8e6c92eb5f67984c458c46e02f0
parentf353626c95c2ab816d62a68bde5fc456db08f69f
edac i5000: fix thermal issues

Make the Thermal messages (temperature got past Tmid) be displayed only
once because:

1) it's the BIOS job to configure and handle the memory throttling
2) if the BIOS is broken or is aware about the condition, flooding the
   system logs won't help anything.
3) According to the specification update for Intel 5000 MCHs, all the
   revisions of this MCH have problems on the thermal sensors, making
   not automatic (a.k.a. intelligent thermal throttling) impossible.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/edac/i5000_edac.c