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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:44:05 +0100
From: Stephane Jourdois <stephane@tuxfinder.org>
To: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
Cc: LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Marcel J. E. Mol" <marcel@mesa.nl>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMM BIOS on Dell i8100
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:45:13PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I have released version 1.2 of the driver. It contains Stephane's patches
> for the I8100, a new i8kmon and some documentation. You can download from:
>     http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/

Hello,

Here is my patch to i8kutils-1.2 :

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
diff -u i8kutils-1.2.orig/i8kbuttons.c i8kutils-1.2/i8kbuttons.c
--- i8kutils-1.2.orig/i8kbuttons.c      Tue Nov  6 20:07:27 2001
+++ i8kutils-1.2/i8kbuttons.c   Tue Nov  6 20:11:19 2001
@@ -53,15 +53,7 @@

     DPRINTF("exec_cmd: %s\n", cmd);

-    if ((rc=3Dfork()) < 0) {
-       perror("fork failed");
-       return;
-    }
-
-    if (rc =3D=3D 0) {
-       execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, NULL);
-       exit(0);
-    }
+    system(cmd);
 }
=20
 static int
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Without that, I get as much zombies processes as I have pressed the
volume buttons :-) I know system() is not great, but as security is not
a problem here...
I use debian/sid, and aumix as the mixer.


Now a fundamental question :
Does the load of the i8k module inhibits the fans start ? I can see my
processor temp increasing (I saw 80=B0C ...) without the fans start. Then
I started i8kmon to avoid an explosion. If the modules inhibits material
protections, then if that can be modified, it would be great ; if not,
i8kmon needs to get included in the kernel as a daemon. The i8kmon
should be a funny tool, not a system critical tool.

Also, I couldn't understand why sometimes the left fan is printed on red
color in i8kmon...


Thank you,

	Stephane


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