Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753009AbZFUMal (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750830AbZFUMad (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:33 -0400 Received: from rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:59064 "EHLO rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbZFUMad (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:30:34 +0200 From: Andreas Mohr To: Peter Feuerer Cc: Borislav Petkov , Andreas Mohr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Acer Aspire One fan control, simplified and scrubbed Message-ID: <20090621123034.GA21764@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> References: <20090620170835.GA3295@liondog.tnic> <20090620203846.bbe19d0d.peter@piie.net> <20090621060216.GA25786@liondog.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Length: 845 Lines: 20 Hi, On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:25:30PM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote: > Ok, we'll leave this feature out, as the code is really much cleaner and > I also doubt that anybody will miss it. Either that, or, if one implements it, then one should probably do it in a watchdog type way (i.e. expect new userspace input at least every 20 seconds, otherwise emergency-switch back to kernel mode or maybe better even BIOS mode). One molten machine less, ya know ;) (would be good to add this as a comment in the driver patch, "if one intends to add userspace control, then please watchdog...") Andreas Mohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/