Re: [PATCH v11] asus-wmi: Add support for custom fan curves

Bastien Nocera
2021-09-28T11:37:03Z

On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 11:22 +1200, Luke D. Jones wrote:
> Add support for custom fan curves found on some ASUS ROG laptops.
>
> These laptops have the ability to set a custom curve for the CPU
> and GPU fans via two ACPI methods.
>
> This patch adds two pwm<N> attributes to the hwmon sysfs,
> pwm1 for CPU fan, pwm2 for GPU fan. Both are under the hwmon of the
> name `asus_custom_fan_curve`. There is no safety check of the set
> fan curves - this must be done in userspace.
>
> The fans have settings [1,2,3] under pwm<N>_enable:
> 1. Enable and write settings out
> 2. Disable and use factory fan mode
> 3. Same as 2, additionally restoring default factory curve.
>
> Use of 2 means that the curve the user has set is still stored and
> won't be erased, but the laptop will be using its default auto-fan
> mode. Re-enabling the manual mode then activates the curves again.
>
> Notes:
> - pwm<N>_enable = 0 is an invalid setting.
> - pwm is actually a percentage and is scaled on writing to device.

I was trying to update:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon/-/merge_requests/80
but I don't understand what files I need to check for what values to
detect whether custom fan curves were used.

Can you help me out here?

Also, was this patch accepted in the pdx86 tree?

Cheers