Re: [PATCH v4] i8k: Autodetect maximal fan speed and fan RPM multiplier

Guenter Roeck
2014-12-21T18:52:14Z

On 12/21/2014 10:40 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2014 19:27:34 Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 12/21/2014 09:23 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> This patch adds new function i8k_get_fan_nominal_speed() for
>>> doing SMM call which will return nominal fan RPM for
>>> specified fan speed. It returns nominal RPM value at which
>>> fan operate when speed (0, 1, 2, 3) is set. It looks like
>>> RPM value is not accurate, but still provides very useful
>>> information.
>>>
>>> First it can be used to validate if certain fan speed could
>>> be accepted by SMM for setting fan speed and we can use
>>> this routine to detect maximal fan speed.
>>>
>>> Second it returns RPM value, so we can check if value looks
>>> correct with multiplier 30 or multiplier 1 (until now only
>>> these two multiplier were used). If RPM value with
>>> multiplier 30 is too high, then multiplier 1 is used.
>>>
>>> In case when SMM reports that new function is not supported
>>> we will fallback to old hardcoded values. Maximal fan speed
>>> would be 2 and RPM multiplier 30.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
>>> Tested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
>>
>> Tested-by the submitter is kind of implied.
>>
>> Anyway, this patch does not apply to 3.19-rc1, nor to 3.18.
>> What is your baseline ? Can you rebase to 3.19-rc1 ?
>> Or do I need to apply some other patch first ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Guenter
>
> You need to apply these old patches:
> i8k: Add support for temperature sensor labels
> i8k: Register only temperature sensors which have labels
> i8k: Return -ENODATA for invalid temperature
> i8k: Rework error retries
>

I think it would make sense to re-send the entire series at this
point (including my patch and all Reviewed-by: tags). Problem is
that not all patches have a version number (for example there
are multiple versions of the label patch, but the version
I reviewed does not have version information). This makes it
very difficult to find the correct (reviewed) version, and I
suspect that Greg may neither have the time nor the desire
to do it.

Thanks,
Guenter