Re: PROBLEM: CPU fan shuts down on load of fan.ko in kernel 2.6.18 and later

Bjorn Helgaas
2007-01-16T16:54:35Z

On Monday 15 January 2007 06:33, Karasyov, Konstantin A wrote:
> The fan device FAN1 defines object FN01 as its power resource. _STA
> method of FN01 always return 0x01, i.e. resource is on. So the fan
> driver is unable to turn the fan on, because it thinks that it is
> already in that state.

The code looks like this:

int acpi_bus_set_power(acpi_handle handle, int state)
{
...
if (!device->flags.force_power_state) {
if (device->power.state == ACPI_STATE_UNKNOWN)
acpi_bus_get_power(device->handle, &device->power.state)
if (state == device->power.state) {
return 0; /* already at desired state */
}
...
acpi_power_transition(device, state);

Why do we bother with the "acpi_bus_get_power" at all? The problem
Matthew is seeing wouldn't happen at all if we just deleted everything
in the force_power_state block.

Then we could execute _ON, _PS0, etc for a device that is already on.
Does that cause bad things to happen? I assume the fan probably works
as desired under Windows, so they probably do something like this.

Bjorn