copying /sys causes fans to spin up

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 28 08:53:36 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:50 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Tue, Feb 28, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > windfarm: failed to attach ds1775 hd-temp to i2c
> > > windfarm: failed to attach MAX6690 sensor
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Maybe thats harmless, but I have seen it on a few different G5.
> > 
> > Hrm... the windfarm sensors are useless on those old G5s that use
> > therm_pm72... though I wouldn't have expected them to cause harm.
> 
> Its compiled into the kernel, too much trouble if they are not loaded by
> accident.

Yeah, I should add a test for supported machines... 

Ben.





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