From: Luke Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hdegoede@redhat.com,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] asus-wmi: Add support for custom fan curves
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:00:30 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <U8X4YQ.79I8GZJ1LDW02@ljones.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c19dfdde11754c234ca8a45c4af2187699498ee8.camel@hadess.net>
On Fri, Aug 20 2021 at 12:51:08 +0200, Bastien Nocera
<hadess@hadess.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 12:43 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:33 +1200, Luke Jones wrote:
>> > > Am I going to get bug reports from Asus users that will complain
>> > > that
>> > > power-profiles-daemon doesn't work correctly, where I will have
>> > > to
>> > > wearily ask if they're using an Asus Rog laptop?
>> >
>> > No. Definitely not. The changes to fan curves per-profile need to
>> > be
>> > explicitly enabled and set. So a new user will be unaware that
>> this
>> > control exists (until they look for it) and their laptop will
>> > behave
>> > exactly as default.
>>
>> "The user will need to change the fan curves manually so will
>> definitely remember to mention it in bug reports" is a very
>> different
>> thing to "the user can't change the fan curves to be nonsensical and
>> mean opposite things".
>>
>> I can assure you that I will eventually get bug reports from "power
>> users" who break their setup and wonder why things don't work
>> properly,
>> without ever mentioning the changes they made changes to the fan
>> curves, or anything else they might have changed.
>
> A way to taint the settings that power-profiles-daemon could catch
> would be fine by me. I absolutely don't want to have to support
> somebody's tweaks until they undo them.
Definitely understood. Do you have something in mind?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-20 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-20 9:57 [PATCH v4 0/1] asus-wmi: Add support for custom fan curves Luke D. Jones
2021-08-20 9:57 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] " Luke D. Jones
2021-08-20 10:18 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-20 10:33 ` Luke Jones
2021-08-20 10:43 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-20 10:51 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-20 11:00 ` Luke Jones [this message]
2021-08-20 11:39 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-20 21:30 ` Luke Jones
2021-08-23 10:28 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-23 11:26 ` Luke Jones
2021-08-23 11:45 ` Hans de Goede
2021-08-24 12:33 ` Bastien Nocera
2021-08-24 15:45 ` Hans de Goede
2021-08-20 10:59 ` Luke Jones
2021-08-20 10:05 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] " Hans de Goede
2021-08-20 10:08 ` Luke Jones
2021-08-26 23:09 ` Luke Jones
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