From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix a fan watchdog invocation Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 19:00:21 +0200 Message-ID: <1178211621.1231.818.camel@queen.suse.de> References: <11777220172751-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> <11777220173445-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> Reply-To: trenn@suse.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:55895 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031348AbXECRAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 13:00:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11777220173445-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: lenb@kernel.org, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 22:00 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The fan control watchdog was being called in one place even when the fan > control operation had failed. Fix it. I didn't have a closer look to the fan watchdog, but it looks like a ThinkPad specific thing? IMO we could need some general fan watchdog as fans are breaking away here and there. Latest reports came from HPs and FSC models ... A check whether the fan/power resource is still in the assumed state or whether something changed it behind the back is a general good idea? Thomas