On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 06:18:36PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> >> wrote: >> > It wouldn't be appropriate to alter the firmware behaviour by default, >> > but yeah, that's the kind of thing that the thermal framework exists to >> > do. >> >> Well, how do I do that? The driver is up and running, and I can >> manually set different fan speeds, however nothing seems to happen >> automatically when the temperature increases. > > The easiest is to just do it from userspace. I think Intel have some > code for doing this, but I haven't looked at the thermal code for years.
That defeats the purpose of the whole thermal binding infrastructure. >> > I don't think you can easily register multiple drivers for the same WMI >> > device. >> >> I don't mean this one, I mean the standalone one. Actually, the first >> one I sent doesn't require all this system memory stuff. > > Banging EC registers directly is the wrong thing to do. Going via WMI is > correct. I'm not going to bother arguing against your absolutist rhetoric. The fact is one patch can be applied, the other can't. Besides, nobody said anything about banging EC registers directly. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
