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From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One fan control
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:03:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090212210330.GH12846@charite.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1234471033.988571.5384.1000@mentalhome>

* Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>:
> Hi list,
>
> I own such an Acer Aspire One netbook and the noisy fan annoyed me. (The  
> default hardware controlled fan is on all the time). So I wrote a small  
> kernel module which monitors the temperature of the cpu and turns the fan 
> on and off. After testing it a while on my and some of my friends 
> netbooks, it seems to be stable and I thought about submitting this 
> functionality to the mainline kernel. As this is my first time, I've got 
> some questions and would really appreciate any help.

There's a userspace program for that. So why add a kernel module?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-12 20:37 Acer Aspire One fan control Peter Feuerer
2009-02-12 21:03 ` Ralf Hildebrandt [this message]
2009-02-12 21:14   ` Peter Feuerer
2009-03-09 10:54     ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-02-13 10:35 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-02-13 19:34   ` Peter Feuerer
2009-02-13 13:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-13 18:59   ` Peter Feuerer
2009-02-13 19:18     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-02-13 19:45       ` Peter Feuerer
2009-02-27 18:58       ` [PATCH] acerhdf: " Peter Feuerer
     [not found]         ` <1235763653.24506.6.camel@localhost>
2009-02-28 18:58           ` Peter Feuerer
2009-03-01 14:38             ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-26 22:22               ` Peter Feuerer
2009-04-01 12:44                 ` Peter Feuerer
2009-04-12 20:49                   ` Peter Feuerer
2009-04-04 10:51                 ` Peter Feuerer
2009-03-01 15:27             ` Ed Tomlinson

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