Re: Acer Aspire One fan control

From: Ralf Hildebrandt
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 16:03:43 EST


* Peter Feuerer <peter@xxxxxxxx>:
> Hi list,
>
> I own such an Acer Aspire One netbook and the noisy fan annoyed me. (The
> default hardware controlled fan is on all the time). So I wrote a small
> kernel module which monitors the temperature of the cpu and turns the fan
> on and off. After testing it a while on my and some of my friends
> netbooks, it seems to be stable and I thought about submitting this
> functionality to the mainline kernel. As this is my first time, I've got
> some questions and would really appreciate any help.

There's a userspace program for that. So why add a kernel module?
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