linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] acerhdf/thermal: adding new models, appropriate governor and minor clean up

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Message-ID: <cone.1405550072.529732.1059.1000@galar>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:34:32 +0200
From:	Peter Feuerer <peter@...e.net>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] acerhdf/thermal: adding new models, appropriate
         governor and minor clean up

Hi Boris,

nice to hear from you.


Borislav Petkov writes:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote:
>> This patch series is intended to:
>> 
>>   * Introduce "manual mode" support (Patch 1 & 2), which is needed to control
>>     the fan of a few new models.
>> 
>>   * Add an appropriate thermal governor (Patch 3 & 4).  Manipulating and
>>     fiddling around with the step-wise governor has been a very fragile thing
>>     in the past and as it broke again, I used the opportunity to add a two
>>     point thermal governor which implements the actual fan handling required by
>>     acerhdf and puts from my point of view things straight.
>> 
>>   * Do some minor clean up like:
>>       - adding second trip point for critical temperature (Patch 5)
>>       - removing _t suffix from struct which isn't typedef and replace unsigned
>>         char by u8 (Patch 6)
> 
> so what's the state of those?
> 
> In the meantime I noticed the breakage here too, after updating the
> kernel on the aspire one - the fan remains on.
> 
> Do you have a latest version which is ready for testing or should I take
> those?

I'll send out new set of patches by Sunday latestly, but you could of course 
start testing with version3 of the patchset, as I just planned to do minor 
fixes anyhow.

-- 
kind regards,
--peter;
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