From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dominik Brodowski Subject: Re: Changing temperature trip points Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:08:43 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021103220843.B1665@brodo.de> References: <000001c28231$b7cae110$c200a8c0@pikachu> <20021102171756.GD1983@elf.ucw.cz> <1036288754.2971.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20021103195616.GB27271@elf.ucw.cz> <20021103211607.A1555@brodo.de> <20021103202130.GB22668@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20021103213010.A1665@brodo.de> <20021103203949.GE22668@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021103203949.GE22668-jyMamyUUXNJG4ohzP4jBZS1Fcj925eT/@public.gmane.org>; from pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:39:49PM +0100 Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Edmund Rhudy , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:39:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > YOU are right that I need to turn the polling on. > > > > > > But I'm sure fan is done by bios on my machine. > > > > Yes, that might well be - the fan on my machine turns on and off both when > > it thinks it should, and when ACPI tells it should *weird* > > > > Actually, I think any write into trip_points should automatically enable > > the polling mode. Will submit a patch which does that later. Do 3 seconds > > sound sane? > > I believe user should be clever enough to set polling rate manually. > > Perhaps documenting it is enough? > Pavel > PS: Polling rate has strong effect on how passive works. If you set > it too fast it will basically only use "max performance" and "max > throttle", which is not what you want. That's true, yes. But it really should be documented. Well, maybe I'll find the time to do the same for /thermal_zone what I've already done for /processor at http://www.brodo.de/english/pub/acpi/proc/processor.html Dominik ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com