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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fan speed for it87?? chips added
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:24:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030924222413.GD12016@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309232035.29480.michael.hufer@freenet.de>

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:10:30PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> My position is that the driver should change as few things as possible.
> Hardware monitoring chips are a sensible realm. Enabling or disabling an
> interrupt line or the like can cause the hardware to react (fan to full
> speed or even shutdown) and we have had many reports that this happened.
> So I think that the chip drivers should, by default, consider that the
> chip is well configured for the hardware/bios settings, and initialize
> very few things. My drivers work that way (not for the limits yet, but
> for the rest).

I agree, this should be our policy.  Any current 2.6 drivers that
violate this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-19  6:24 fan speed for it87?? chips added Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Greg KH
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Michael Hufer
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Greg KH
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Greg KH
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Philip Pokorny
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Greg KH
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Mark Studebaker
2005-05-19  6:24 ` Mark Studebaker

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