[PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates
Andreas Schwab
schwab at linux-m68k.org
Fri Apr 27 17:59:04 EST 2012
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> Ok, I'll switch that back then. It seemed more sensible to read the
> actual fan values rather than the programmed ones (in fact I wonder if I
> can just skip the read alltogether then and use a cached value but that
> means I won't be able to detect failed fans...), but if you say it
> behaves better, let's keep it the way it was.
I don't actually care too much about this, since the most annoyance came
from the slots fan.
> As for the tickle, I'm not sure yet how to proceed. I'll look into it,
> try various things. We can maybe just remove the tickle but that means
> that a completely idle machine might start ramping up as the FCU times
> out.
The old driver gets away with it probably because it always writes to
the fcu even if the speed didn't change.
Andreas.
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