Re: [PATCH] Acer Aspire One fan control, simplified and scrubbed

From: Peter Feuerer
Date: Sun Jun 21 2009 - 08:24:54 EST


Hi,

Borislav Petkov writes:

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:38:46PM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote:
You removed the feature of controlling the fan from userspace, while the
driver is running in kernelmode=off!
( echo 0 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/cur_state calls also the
acerhdf_set_cur_state function )

I still don't really see the need for this since the module is doing
pretty good job already. Besides, its not like there is really a need
for userspace daemon doing heavy calculations and based on those
controlls the fan - simply turning it on and off based on the current
temp readings is what is needed and the thermal layer does that just
fine already :).

Ok, we'll leave this feature out, as the code is really much cleaner and I also doubt that anybody will miss it.


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Acerhdf is a driver for Acer Aspire One netbooks. It allows
to access the temperature sensor and to control the fan.

Peter:

- fixed bios table terminator Version string ( 0 to "" )
- added acerhdf_enable_kernelmode
- modified acerhdf_revert_to_bios_mode to disable polling
- modified acerhdf_get_temp to omit the pr_notice (temperature
should not be printed out in verbose mode, when called from
acerhdf_set_cur_state)

see below for some minor nitpicking.

I'll fix the things you suggested and send then a (hopefully) last acerhdf patch to lkml and linus, ok?

Again, thank you very much! I've really learned a lot from you!

regards,
--peter
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