On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Len Brown wrote: > It seems like it is enough rope for users to hang themselves, > and the need for a "safety net" seems to confirm that. I will cook up a patch that removes the experimental status of fan control, and adds in its place an explicit toggle to enable fan control (as opposed to fan monitoring, i.e. read-only operations) as a module parameter. And it will default to "fan control is forbidden". That way, the user has to effectively tell the kernel, through the kernel command line or a module parameter, that he wants thinkpad-acpi to be capable of writing fan control information to the EC. Otherwise the driver will return -EPERM on all fan control operations, and just allow one to read fan status. What do you think? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
