Re: Acer Aspire One fan control

[Peter Feuerer]

Ralf Hildebrandt writes:

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

Because you must write to and read from io-ports and I think this should be 
done in the kernel. I guess the userspace program you are talking about is 
acer_ec.pl? A perl script which needs very much cpu time for a 
functionality which can be handled in kernelspace without causing any big 
troubles.
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