linux-kernel - Re: Acer Aspire One fan control

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Message-ID: <20090212210330.GH12846@charite.de>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:03:30 +0100
From:	Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@...rite.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One fan control

* Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>:
> Hi list,
>
> I own such an Acer Aspire One netbook and the noisy fan annoyed me. (The  
> default hardware controlled fan is on all the time). So I wrote a small  
> kernel module which monitors the temperature of the cpu and turns the fan 
> on and off. After testing it a while on my and some of my friends 
> netbooks, it seems to be stable and I thought about submitting this 
> functionality to the mainline kernel. As this is my first time, I've got 
> some questions and would really appreciate any help.

There's a userspace program for that. So why add a kernel module?
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