On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:59:47AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Simple driver to enable control of the fan in ASUS laptops. So far this > has only been tested in ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A, but according to some > online reference [1], it should work in other models as well. > > The implementation is very straight-forward, the only caveat is that the > fan speed needs to be saved after it has been manually changed because > it won't be reported properly until it goes back to 'auto' mode. > > [1] > http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/705656-fan-control-asus-prime-ux31-ux31a-ux32a-ux32vd.html > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> > --- > > Two incarnations of this code exists [1][2], one that used ACPI methods > directly, and one through WMI. Unfortunately the WMI version needs us to pass > physicall addresses which is not exactly clean, and that's the only reason the > code is proposed for staging. > > Most likely this cannot graduate until acpica gets support to receive virtual > addresses.
When is that going to happen? > > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/36774 > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1576463 > > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/asus-thermal/Kconfig | 7 ++ > drivers/staging/asus-thermal/asus_thermal.c | 166 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I need a TODO file for a staging driver listing who is responsible for it, and what is needed to be done to it in order to get it out of staging. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
