Phantom pain with windfarm on diskless iMac G5

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:47 +0100, Markus Demleitner wrote:

> If that works out, fine -- I could simply keep lm75 from loading and
> I'd be happy.  However, I can see issues here of not detecting sensor
> or other failures.  Worse, this isn't an issue of the disk fan (which
> my machines don't have anyway) alone, but also of the main fan (right
> now, we get an overtemp condition on top of that, with all
> consequences).

What overtemp condition ? You mean that you get _really_ overtemp when
the disk is missing and the disk fan not blowing ? That's pretty bad...

> Since I have no idea how to solve the problem with the other
> "solutions", that's probably the best idea.  What do you think of a
> parameter "debug_values" for windfarm_lm75_sensor.c that is either 0
> (default) for returning actual sensor readings or some other value
> that's then returned (which might also help with debugging, and the
> naming of the parameter should make clear that you're not supposed to
> use it unless you know what you're doing)?
> 
> While I'm about this: Did you resolve the issues with windfarm as
> modules?

Not yet.

Ben.