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Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Simple fan question
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:14 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> If you have 100 different values, you can map them to the standard
> 0..255 range of pwm[1-*] files.
> 
> > IIRC thinkpads have 8-or-so possible discrete cases...
> 
> Correct. And even these would map nicely to the 0..255 range IMHO.

well, I eventually settled for doing that with my 3 values :-) We'll see
how fan-control copes.

Cheers,
Ben.