From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757529AbZEVQKU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 12:10:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753349AbZEVQKK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 12:10:10 -0400 Received: from rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:40228 "EHLO rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751535AbZEVQKJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2009 12:10:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:10:09 +0200 From: Andreas Mohr To: Pavel Machek Cc: Peter Feuerer , petkovbb@gmail.com, LKML , lenb@kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , Maxim Levitsky Subject: Re: [PATCH] Acer Aspire One Fan Contro Message-ID: <20090522161009.GA20476@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090522140930.GA26580@elf.ucw.cz> X-Priority: none User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, > Yep, I don't disagree. But I strongly suspect that if you force the > fan off and overheat the machine, it will shut down in hardware before > doing any damage. s/strongly suspect/definitely know/ ;-) Reason being that my machine suddenly dropped dead (2 or 3 times maybe), and when I then reactivated it, the fan made a nice tick....tick....tick noise as if it tried to start but something blocked it a bit too much. Shook and rocked the box a bit (not too difficult with a netbook after all ;), then it worked again and ever since. Probably a slightly wonky fan, but I'm not sure whether I should care all that much at the moment. I _am_ using the shell script currently, but within pretty safe limits (I'd hope that I'm not insane after all), thus I don't think this negatively affected fan health or machine. I cannot really testify that those had been "properly triggered" emergency shutdowns, but from the looks of it they definitely were, nothing melted or smoking or whatever. BIOS v0.3109 (ooold) Andreas Mohr