[ltp] [PATCH] In-kernel automatic fan control

Yury Polyanskiy linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:46:26 -0500


Honey,

I think using this is pretty dangerous because this clearly uses fan
beyond its specification. Lifetime of a fan is definitely a concern for
me. People from "speed-control-patch" added level disengaged for
pulse-noise problem workaround I believe.

Yury.

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:48 +0000, honey wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Yury Polyanskiy wrote:
> 
> > Honey,
> >
> > 'full-speed' is the same as "level disengaged" of fan-speed patch.
> >
> > Yury.
> 
> Thanks Yruy - confirmed that
> 
> echo 0x2F 0x40 >! /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
> 
> does indeed match full-speed.
> 
> Do you incorporate bursts of disengaged fan mode at very high
> temperature in your patch?  Using it in my script, I've found literally
> a few seconds burst at very high temperature works wonders.
> 
> Honey