From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760237AbZBLVDn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756529AbZBLVDd (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:33 -0500 Received: from mail-ausfall.charite.de ([193.175.70.131]:48030 "EHLO mail-ausfall.charite.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751161AbZBLVDc (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:03:30 +0100 From: Ralf Hildebrandt To: LKML Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One fan control Message-ID: <20090212210330.GH12846@charite.de> Mail-Followup-To: LKML References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Peter Feuerer : > Hi list, > > I own such an Acer Aspire One netbook and the noisy fan annoyed me. (The > default hardware controlled fan is on all the time). So I wrote a small > kernel module which monitors the temperature of the cpu and turns the fan > on and off. After testing it a while on my and some of my friends > netbooks, it seems to be stable and I thought about submitting this > functionality to the mainline kernel. As this is my first time, I've got > some questions and would really appreciate any help. There's a userspace program for that. So why add a kernel module?