Comment 51 for bug 636045

Updating to the new kernel seems a bit sketchy. People should probably at least use the PPA given by Ramoonus in the comments, so as to allow security updates to be picked up by APT — assuming that updated kernel images are indeed posted to the PPA.

Based on the lxml thread posted in comment #21, and based on the fact that my machine is running cool, it looks like this is just noise that can safely be muted until the kernel patch is deployed in the mainline ubuntu release. I've done this by adding a syslog filter:

    $ cat /etc/rsyslog/10-mcp-power.conf
    :msg,contains,"intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded" ~

I'm not sure if the the `...1f:6` will always be the same or not.

Skeptics can get more info at these locations:

http://serverfault.com/questions/15106/is-there-a-way-to-filter-syslog-entries

http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_filter.html