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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:24:19 +0000
Subject: fan speed for it87?? chips added
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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