Re: regression in linux 3.7 - fan speed at 100% after suspend/resume at 100%

From: Sascha Wilde
Date: Sun Mar 10 2013 - 11:47:13 EST


Sascha Wilde <wilde@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> [2] FWIWÂ, I'm under the stron impression that the whole fan control
> changed in the latest vanilla kernels on my 6910p even before doing
> a suspend/resume -- it seems to be more "binary" if you will, in
> that the fan is not running at all for a while and then at a 100%
> to return back to 0% after doing some serious cooling. With 3.6.11
> and older it is more "analogue", with slow fan when only a bit
> cooling is needed. No idea if this is related to the issue at
> hand.

For that part of the problem I just discovered something that might be a
hint on the cause, there is no governor set for the thermal zones:

/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy : (null)
/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone1/policy : (null)
/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone2/policy : (null)
/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone3/policy : (null)
/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone4/policy : (null)

to my understanding this policies should default default to the
CONFIG_THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_*
configured in the kernel. But it is always (null) for me. And
something like
# echo fair_share >/sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/policy
does not work either.

Or is this expected behavior?

cheers
sascha
--
Sascha Wilde : "There are 10 types of people in the world.
: Those who understand binary and those who don't."
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