From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Giovanni Mascellani <gio@debian.org>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (dell-smm-hwmon) Disable BIOS fan control upon loading
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:28:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <163001.1573597739@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112214128.28058-1-gio@debian.org>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:41:28 +0100, Giovanni Mascellani said:
> Disable BIOS fan control on such laptops at module loading, and
> re-enable it at module unloading, so that a userspace controller like
> i8kmon can take control of the fan.
The code as written appears to make the disabling unconditional,
which means that if a userspace controller *isn't* started things will
get toasty really fast. Probably need a module parameter or something
to control that.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 21:41 [PATCH] hwmon: (dell-smm-hwmon) Disable BIOS fan control upon loading Giovanni Mascellani
2019-11-12 22:28 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2019-11-13 7:17 ` Giovanni Mascellani
2019-11-13 8:15 ` Ilie Halip
2019-11-13 8:31 ` Giovanni Mascellani
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