Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Added support for Acer Aspire 5755G fan control.

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

Adding Peter.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:41:11PM +0300, Tero Keski-Valkama wrote:
> 2012/9/25 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:34:13AM +0300, Tero Keski-Valkama wrote:
> >
> > But before we go with this any further: you mentioned some issues still
> > with acerhdf - you don't want to turn off your fan but to turn it to
> > full?
> >
> > I think in this case, you want to simply not load the driver and use the
> > BIOS settings, no?
> >
> > --
> > Regards/Gruss,
> >     Boris.
> 
> Technically I think my original issue is about thermal zones, and BIOS
> control doesn't solve it as is. However, the patch should be valid,
> even if it doesn't solve my original issue.
> 
> The thing is that passive cooling thermal zones throttle all the cores
> to stone age, to 800 MHz, before the fan even really starts powering
> up from the low default level.

I don't understand: you want the thermal zones to not throttle your cpu
to 800 Mhz and/or the fan to start sooner?

> So, my original problem would be solved
> by:
> a) Direct control of the fan, to be able to put it on full for example
> through userspace control,

That's always a bad idea, especially if userspace dies on you.

> b) Changing the active cooling thermal zones, so that the fan speeds
> up earlier, or

Ok, I see, here's what you want.

> c) Changing the passive cooling (CPU throttling) thermal zones, so
> that it doesn't prevent fan from speeding up in the first place.
> 
> At the moment, I don't see any way to change the thermal zones through
> existing interfaces for this laptop, and I don't see any potential
> thermal zone controls, or manual fan control option in the Embedded
> Controller registry.

I'll let Peter have a look at the patch too.

@Peter, it is at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/25/92

Btw, the commit message starts with "x86:... " and it should be
"acerhdf:.. " Peter, please change that when handling the patch further.

Also, you've added yourself to the copyright - this means that you're
pretty much going to get all future email about acerhdf. Do you really
want that?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.