Re: Acer Aspire One fan control
From: Peter Feuerer
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 16:14:37 EST
Ralf Hildebrandt writes:
There's a userspace program for that. So why add a kernel module?
Because you must write to and read from io-ports and I think this should be
done in the kernel. I guess the userspace program you are talking about is
acer_ec.pl? A perl script which needs very much cpu time for a
functionality which can be handled in kernelspace without causing any big
troubles.
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