On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:18 +0200, Xavier wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tobias Powalowski<t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi guys, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1199797&page=1 http://mabene.icomedias.com/coretemp.patch got a mail about this kernel patch, i think it looks safe.
Any objections in adding it before releasing 2.6.30.6? It will be not included in the .31 series.
I looked for an upstream submission. It might help in the decision : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/18577/ especially this message : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/18/385
So basically the patch isn't a bad thing, but the values are just guessed, which means the core temperatures reported are not actually the values that intel intended. If upstream doesn't apply it, I don't feel comfortable with applying such a patch either, for the same reasons. Temperature display is nice, but it's useless if the scale is just a guessed value.