ACPI fan problems on HP pavilion desktop

[Keenan Pepper]

I'm trying to set up cpu clock modulation and ACPI fan support on my HP pavilion 
a302x, so it runs quieter when it's not doing anything (the fan is pretty loud). 
The cpufreq driver works great, but the ACPI fan driver not so good: it can turn 
the fan off but not back on again.

I changed these lines in drivers/acpi/power.c:

-       if (resource->state != ACPI_POWER_RESOURCE_STATE_OFF)
-               return_VALUE(-ENOEXEC);
+       if (resource->state != ACPI_POWER_RESOURCE_STATE_OFF) {
+               ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_WARN,
+                       "Device [%s] says it's still on", resource->name));
+               resource->state = ACPI_POWER_RESOURCE_STATE_OFF;
+       }

and now I can turn the fan off and on again, so it works for me, but I want to 
figure out what's actually wrong so other people trying to run linux on this 
machine can have it Just Work(tm) for them. Is it just buggy hardware that 
doesn't comply with the ACPI spec? If so, is there some place where all the 
workarounds for hardware quirks are collected?

Keenan Pepper
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