Re: Changing temperature trip points

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:39:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi!

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YOU are right that I need to turn the polling on.

But I'm sure fan is done by bios on my machine.

Yes, that might well be - the fan on my machine turns on and off both when
it thinks it should, and when ACPI tells it should *weird*

Actually, I think any write into trip_points should automatically enable
the polling mode. Will submit a patch which does that later. Do 3 seconds
sound sane?

I believe user should be clever enough to set polling rate manually.

Perhaps documenting it is enough?
				Pavel

PS: Polling rate has strong effect  on how passive works. If you set
it too fast it will basically only use "max performance" and "max
throttle", which is not what you want.

That's true, yes. But it really should be documented. Well, maybe I'll find
the time to do the same for /thermal_zone what I've already done for
/processor at http://www.brodo.de/english/pub/acpi/proc/processor.html

	Dominik


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