From 9f497bcc695fb828da023d74ad3c966b1e58ad21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:48:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix thermal shutdowns

Do not use unsigned int if there is test for negative number...

See drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
  static unsigned int ignore_ppc = -1;
...
  if (event == CPUFREQ_START && ignore_ppc <= 0) {
       ignore_ppc = 0;
...

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
index 0133af49cf068..80e32093e977c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(performance_mutex);
  *  0 -> cpufreq low level drivers initialized -> consider _PPC values
  *  1 -> ignore _PPC totally -> forced by user through boot param
  */
-static unsigned int ignore_ppc = -1;
+static int ignore_ppc = -1;
 module_param(ignore_ppc, uint, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_ppc, "If the frequency of your machine gets wrongly" \
 		 "limited by BIOS, this should help");
-- 
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