From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx2.suse.de", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0624667A04 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:34:39 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:34:35 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: copying /sys causes fans to spin up Message-ID: <20060227213435.GA21832@suse.de> References: <20060227160911.GA17569@suse.de> <1141075795.4809.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <1141075795.4809.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Feb 28, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:09 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Ben, > > > > > > some tool copies /sys, and while doing it, the fans start to spin up on > > my G5. Any idea how to fix it, other than not reading from /sys? Have to > > find the exact file. > > Interesting... it's causing the i2c bus to go nuts... It would be useful > to find out what file indeed... For Olof it was /sys/devices/platform/windfarm.0/hd-temp, but I cant test it right now.