On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 19:23 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > A previosu message in this big suggested that the i2c_powermac module > > may be involved. > > > > I can confirm that this module is missing completely for the 3.12 kernel > > (there is no module of that name in the /lib/modules/3.12-1-powerpc64/ > > tree) whereas for the 3.4 kernel this module is available and is being > > auto-loaded. > > It seems that the i2c_powermac module from 3.4 is now called i2c-powermac > (underscore replaced with a minux sign).
These are the same name, so far as the kernel is concerned. > Manually loading the i2c-powermac module results in fans that run at the > normal. expected low speed. I will be adding this to /etc/modules as a > workaround for this issue. Does it matter whether you load i2c-powermac before or after the windfarm modules? > A question about kernel modules, can one module (eg windfarm_core) be > made to depend on and auto-load another (eg i2c-powermac)? Yes but I don't think that's the correct solution. I'll ask upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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