Re: experimental patch for toshiba_acpi

[Charles@Schwieters.org]

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Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:

> On 28 ??????? 2009 21:00:26 Charles@schwieters.org wrote:
> >
> > > But then I do not understand why you need this in toshiba_acpi in
> > > the first place. We already have in-kernel module (toshiba) that
> > > provides raw user space HCI access to those who need it. Why is it
> > > necessary to duplicate this functionality in toshiba_acpi in the
> > > first place?
> >
> > I did have reports of some machines like yours. This is the result on
> > a portege r100 (with unpatched toshiba_acpi:
> >
> > % lsmod | grep tosh
> > toshiba_acpi            5336  0
> > toshiba                 4152  0
> > % fan
> > fan: laptop does not have cooling fan or kernel module not installed.
> >
> > Behavior on most machines (and all three of mine) seems to be the
> > same.
> >
> 
> Sorry for dumb question but are you doing it as root?

actually, I get the same result whether running root or not.

Charles
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