linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] acerhdf: Adding support for "manual mode"

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:22:47 +0200
From:	Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] acerhdf: Adding support for
         "manual mode"

Borislav Petkov writes:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:23:32AM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote:
>> From: Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>
>> 
>> Some Acer models require an additional command to turn off the fan after
>> bios mode has been enabled.  Adding new section in bios table to allow
>> support for those models, by writing an extra "manual mode" register.
> 
> Why?
> 
> That command is always the same AFAICT. So why not add a single flag to
> bios_settings_t called "needs_manual" or such and then do the required
> dance in acerhdf_change_fanstate() if it is set?

I wanted to be prepared for possible upcoming models with changed registers 
/ values.  But I guess it would make sense to go for your proposal for now 
and then afterwards we should discuss about implementing the idea of 
Andreas and split the bios_tbl.


> Btw, this "struct bios_settings_t" could lose that "_t" at the end as it
> is not a typedef. We don't like typedefs anyway. :-)

True, will put this on my todo list :)

-- 
--peter;
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