[ltp] fancontrol script causes hundreds of wakeups per second

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:54:29 -0300


On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
> I tried the fancontrol script from
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed and noticed that
> it causes 100-200 wakeups per second in powertop. This happens on a
> X61s. Can this be avoided somehow?

No.  Unless you are talking about hacking the EC firmware to change its own
fan controller parameters.

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